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The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.

Chogyam Trungpa

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Away Delay Incorporated Path Right Shake
Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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Aloneness Distract Fundamental Help Instead Loneliness Oath Relationship
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Attitude Emotional Serenity
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible.
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Face Fear Obstacle Ourselves
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Always Just Problem Relax Transition
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Completely Enlight Except Family Possible
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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Earth Feels Space
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Automatically Compassion Drain Energy Invite Longer People Regard Relate
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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Area Between Convention Extreme Impulse Inhibition Looseness Morality Sanity Somewhere
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
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Egg Golden Know Nothing Once Sit While
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
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
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
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
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Eastern Great Heart Hold Pain Power Sadness Samsara Sun Vision
The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
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Brave Challenges Space
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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Desire Love Making Love

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