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
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAArtistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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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.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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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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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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