We create this world mutually. Maybe it’s not so good, not so beautiful, but it’s not so bad either-it’s a regular world. You can get along in this world, and once you begin to relate with the world, you can appreciate the idea of symbolism. Aggression and paranoia, being unable to leap, are obstacles to symbolism. But once we stop rejecting the world, the world begins to pounce on us. Symbolism is imposed on us. ReaIizations and perceptions of all kinds of realities begin to take shape. There is symbol right and left and front and back.

— Dharma art by Chögyam Trungpa (Dharma ocean series) (Page 65)