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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chogyam Trungpa

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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Broken Combination Discover Enable Loneliness Something Universal
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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Actual Behind City Cloud Say Sun View
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Completely Enlight Except Family Possible
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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All Anything Continue Dance exchange Force Yourself
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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Deserve Earth Realize Sitting
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
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.
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Hang Mindfulness Oneself Push Something Towards
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Different Try Use You
I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. That’s the first key idea. You shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It’s very important for you to realize that.
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Afraid First Gentlemen Idea Key Ladies Say Would
Luxury is experiencing reality
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Experience Luxury Reality
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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Air Bad Fall Hang News Parachute Through
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
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
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
Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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Based Conquer Earth Ground Often People Problem Rather Solve Think Touch

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