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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.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
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Creative Destructive Difficult Involve Must Something Well
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Always Just Problem Relax Transition
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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Anyone Anything Bravery Essence Give Human Refuse Warrirship
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point. It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
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Friends Make Meditation Ourselves Practice
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
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
Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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Afraid Being Bravery Definition Ultimate Yourself
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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Art Mean Space
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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Earth Feels Space
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Attitude Emotional Serenity
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
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
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Accept Cosmic Develop Life Like Love Must Order Situation Universal
Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
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Feast Look Other World

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