To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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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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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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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 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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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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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.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise – we are already wise.
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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