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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa

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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Challenge Delightful Each Every Genuine Moment Warrior
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Earth Pairs Shoes
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
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.
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Gentle Issue Naked Raw Skin Soft Warriorship Without
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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Being Genuine Genumneness Help Other Projection Question
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought
Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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Afraid Being Bravery Definition Ultimate Yourself
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. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.
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Eye Heart Magical Mind Open Place Word
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Alter Fear Hope Season
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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Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
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Alone Experience Freedom Independence Journey Real Spiritual
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
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Future Jump More Now Past Threatened

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