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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Alter Fear Hope Season
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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Actual Behind City Cloud Say Sun View
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. 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.
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Challenge Fully Withing World World Paradox
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.
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Actual Attention Feed Need Obsessively Relate Survive Thought
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
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
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.
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Hang Mindfulness Oneself Push Something Towards
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
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
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Faces Heart Layers
Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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Clear Concerned Get Thing
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
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Confidence Develop Feeble Make Rise Seem Sun Very Watch Whether Wonder
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Away Delay Incorporated Path Right Shake
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
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation

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