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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior’s discipline
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
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The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.
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Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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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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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
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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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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. That’s the first key idea. You shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It’s very important for you to realize that.
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