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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Another Energy Feed Phenomena Quiet See Simple
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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Area Between Convention Extreme Impulse Inhibition Looseness Morality Sanity Somewhere
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Completely Enlight Except Family Possible
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
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Fully Inhibition Just Lack Skillful Total
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.
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Challenge Fully Withing World World Paradox
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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Anyone Control Convert Help Own Point Sanity View Wake
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
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 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
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
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
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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Egg Golden Know Nothing Once Sit While
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought

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