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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Chogyam Trungpa

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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Actual Behind City Cloud Say Sun View
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Appreciate Chaos Deal Great Occur People Themselves World
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
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
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
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Faces Heart Layers
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
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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Helping Ideals Independent
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
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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Gentle Issue Naked Raw Skin Soft Warriorship Without
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Automatically Compassion Drain Energy Invite Longer People Regard Relate
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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Earth Feels Space
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
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Earth Pairs Shoes
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Different Try Use You
Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Awake Become Clear Confuisin Involve See

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