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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.

Chogyam Trungpa

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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Deserve Earth Realize Sitting
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Feast Look Other World
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Automatically Compassion Drain Energy Invite Longer People Regard Relate
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
Luxury is experiencing reality
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Experience Luxury Reality
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Appreciate Chaos Deal Great Occur People Themselves World
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Accept Cosmic Develop Life Like Love Must Order Situation Universal
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Actual Attention Feed Need Obsessively Relate Survive Thought
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Anyone Anything Bravery Essence Give Human Refuse Warrirship
Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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Aloneness Distract Fundamental Help Instead Loneliness Oath Relationship
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Anyone Control Convert Help Own Point Sanity View Wake
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Different Try Use You
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Faces Heart Layers
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

All Anything Continue Dance exchange Force Yourself

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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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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