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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.

Chogyam Trungpa

For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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Challenge Delightful Each Every Genuine Moment Warrior
If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.
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Eye Heart Magical Mind Open Place Word
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.
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Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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Anyone Anything Bravery Essence Give Human Refuse Warrirship
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Future Jump More Now Past Threatened
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
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Feast Look Other World
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
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Fear Fearlessly Merely More Overcome
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
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Being Compassion Creative Enough Talk Term Work
In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
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Accept Cosmic Develop Life Like Love Must Order Situation Universal
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish…The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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Attitude Constant Encourage Genuine Need Part Potential Questioning Student
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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Against Blood Fierce Happiness Hot Joyful Path Practice Smashes Spiritual Swift Tantra Thunderbolt Unreasonable

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