Ordinary people

"It is fine to look back on the lives of great spiritual teachers, but equally, it is not particularly romantic. They had the same problems and difficulties in searching for the teachings that we have in this century. So there's always hope for all of us; we don't particularly have to be born perfect. We could just be ordinary people, perfectly ordinary in the rugged sense; but equally we have a chance to develop spiritual understanding, as well as to attain enlightenment. So therefore, the point of looking back to various great teachers is not that there is something mysterious, something magical about them, but that they were just ordinary when they began. The point is to see the way they proceeded through the various necessary situations which forced them to develop."

Chogyam Trungpa