We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAFearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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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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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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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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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. 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.
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