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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chogyam Trungpa

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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Air Bad Fall Hang News Parachute Through
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
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
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
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Deserve Earth Realize Sitting
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
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
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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Another Different Exist Life Ordinary 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
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Brave Challenges Space
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
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
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
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Eastern Great Heart Hold Pain Power Sadness Samsara Sun Vision
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Alter Fear Hope Season
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Completely Enlight Except Family Possible

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

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