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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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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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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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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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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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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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point. It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
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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.
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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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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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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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