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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAGentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn’t have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.
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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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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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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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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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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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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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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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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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