To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe 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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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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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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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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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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Luxury is experiencing reality
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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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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That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.
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I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. That’s the first key idea. You shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It’s very important for you to realize that.
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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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 easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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