Paul Lagrotteria:  

Paul is from Glencoe, Illinois. Paul works(ed) at Metlife. Music Paul likes includes Music for Amateurs, Andi White & Six Hits Later, Frank Sinatra. Books Paul likes include Magic Dance, Rainbow Painting, To Kill a Mockingbird. Movies Paul likes include Caddyshack, The Maltese Falcon, The Fugitive. TV shows Paul likes include NFL Network, Breaking Bad, Vajra TV. One of Paul's favorite quotes is:""Challenges are opportunities not obstacles." Khenpo Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ W. Shakespeare "Do not rely on an ordinary individual; rely on Dharma. Do not rely on the words; rely on their meaning. Do not rely on relative truth; rely on absolute truth. Do not rely on consciousness; rely on wisdom." Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. An interest in spiri-tuality doesn't mean that you lack something, or that you have developed a black hole in your existence which you are trying to compensate for or cover over with some sort of religious patchwork. It simply means that you are capable of dealing with reality. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche) "We are interested in how space could provide us with a relationship to reality, to the world." Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. "Endless horrible things of samsara Endless wonderful things of nirvana Drawn by the mind So the mind is the greatest artist Painting various relative truths With the brush of conception. If we are not deluded By the various colors of the different Natural elements As they appear on the unobstructed Mirror of the mind, Then nature is always clear space And there is no confusion. *Thinley Norbu Rinpoche- Magic Dance. "We have to come back to becoming the Buddha." Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche "A saint in the Buddhist context is someone who provides an example of the fact that completely ordinary, confused human beings can wake themselves up-- Chogyam Trungpa ...Expand for more