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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Chogyam Trungpa

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
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Every Genuine Life Moment Want Warrior
That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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Broken Combination Discover Enable Loneliness Something Universal
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
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.
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All Anything Continue Dance exchange Force Yourself
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.
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Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.
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Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World
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
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
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
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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Against Blood Fierce Happiness Hot Joyful Path Practice Smashes Spiritual Swift Tantra Thunderbolt Unreasonable
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
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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Area Between Convention Extreme Impulse Inhibition Looseness Morality Sanity Somewhere
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
Although the warrior’s life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others…Yet he is more and more in love with the world.
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Able Although Complete Dedicate Experience Help Other Realize Share Warrior

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