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We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Chogyam Trungpa

If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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Kindness More Work
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Attitude Emotional Serenity
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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Afraid Being Bravery Definition Ultimate Yourself
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
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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Began Enter Life Path Run Thread Understand
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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Another Different Exist Life Ordinary Spiritual
For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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Challenge Delightful Each Every Genuine Moment Warrior
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Appreciate Chaos Deal Great Occur People Themselves World
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
Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
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Feast Look Other World
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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Anyone Anything Bravery Essence Give Human Refuse Warrirship
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.
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Alone Experience Freedom Independence Journey Real Spiritual
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 do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

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We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

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