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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

Chogyam Trungpa

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
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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Appreciate Choas Great Idea Occur People Themselves World
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
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
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.
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Almost Being First Fool Say Willing Wisdom
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
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
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
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
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
Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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Air Bird Flower
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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Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Buddhist Enlightenment Later Sooner
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should

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