Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn’t have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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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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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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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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You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior’s discipline
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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.
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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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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
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