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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.

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.
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Another Energy Feed Phenomena Quiet See Simple
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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Artistic Clear Enough Fall Love Mind See Vision
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible.
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Face Fear Obstacle Ourselves
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
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Completely Enlight Except Family Possible
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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Deserve Earth Realize Sitting
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
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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Broken Combination Discover Enable Loneliness Something Universal
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
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
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
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
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Brave Challenges Space
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
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Fear Fearlessly Merely More Overcome
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
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Confidence Develop Feeble Make Rise Seem Sun Very Watch Whether Wonder

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