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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.

Chogyam Trungpa

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. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.
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Eye Heart Magical Mind Open Place Word
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
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Egg Golden Know Nothing Once Sit While
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
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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Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
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
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
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Away Delay Incorporated Path Right Shake
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
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Alter Fear Hope Season
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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Afraid First Gentlemen Idea Key Ladies Say Would
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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Air Bad Fall Hang News Parachute Through
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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Desire Love Making Love
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
There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise – we are already wise.
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Acknowledge Become Close Distance Extremely Foolishness Little Process Wise

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