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

Chogyam Trungpa

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

Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Alone Experience Freedom Independence Journey Real Spiritual
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
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Brave Challenges Space
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Egg Golden Know Nothing Once Sit While
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Being Compassion Creative Enough Talk Term Work
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Fear Fearlessly Merely More Overcome
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Desire Love Making Love
Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Appreciate Magic Real
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Alter Fear Hope Season
If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Kindness More Work
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Acquire Apply Attempt Benefit Constant Ego Own Spirituality Teaching
In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Accept Cosmic Develop Life Like Love Must Order Situation Universal
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World
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 TRUNGPA

Broken Heart Must Spiritual Tenderness Vulnerable Warrior
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Actual Attention Feed Need Obsessively Relate Survive Thought

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