To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHold 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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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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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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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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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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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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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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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A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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