"Compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to oneself and the world. It is the attitude that one has been born fundamentally rich rather than that one must become rich."
~Chogyam Trungpa~
Teresa at The Chocolate Chip Waffle originally posted this quote here. She also wrote a very beautiful essay expounding on the quote here. She is an amazing, inspirational writer.
It's a beautiful quote. And it is true that physical wealth is irrelevant to wealth of character.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this today! I've been pulling out of a funk these past weeks, feeling uncertain about writing, blogging & just about everything in life lately.
ReplyDeleteThis post is like a song to me today. Thank you!
"a war on want". i loved that line.
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