Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
Chogyam Trungpa
Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
Chogyam Trungpa
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.