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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.

Chogyam Trungpa

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 are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Future Jump More Now Past Threatened
Although the warrior’s life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others…Yet he is more and more in love with the world.
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Able Although Complete Dedicate Experience Help Other Realize Share Warrior
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
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
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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Acknowledge Become Close Distance Extremely Foolishness Little Process Wise
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Every Genuine Life Moment Want Warrior
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
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Creative Destructive Difficult Involve Must Something Well
I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
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Alone Experience Freedom Independence Journey Real Spiritual
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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Basic Become Full General Health Human Being Inspire Practical Profession Psychotherapist World
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
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
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Earth Pairs Shoes
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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