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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Chogyam Trungpa

It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Earth Pairs Shoes
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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Gently Power Speak Tell Truth Word
Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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Aloneness Distract Fundamental Help Instead Loneliness Oath Relationship
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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Another Different Exist Life Ordinary Spiritual
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Completely Enlight Except Family Possible
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
Luxury is experiencing reality
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Experience Luxury Reality
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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Clear Concerned Get Thing
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish…The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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Attitude Constant Encourage Genuine Need Part Potential Questioning Student
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
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.
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Desire Love Making Love
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
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
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.
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Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World

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