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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Chogyam Trungpa

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 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
Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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Appreciate Magic Real
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
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Always Brought Fact Fin Meditation Out Person Practice Problem Sort
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
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Broken Heart Must Spiritual Tenderness Vulnerable Warrior
Luxury is experiencing reality
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Experience Luxury Reality
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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Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
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
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Different Try Use You
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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Acquire Apply Attempt Benefit Constant Ego Own Spirituality Teaching
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Every Genuine Life Moment Want Warrior
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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Buddhist Enlightenment Later Sooner
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

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