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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive…

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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is…
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.…
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly…
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and…
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence…
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks…
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is…
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all…
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that…
Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation…
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look…

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of… — Albert Schweitzer
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more… — John Welwood
EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched… — Morihei Ueshiba
Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains — Myles Munroe
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy,… — Albert Schweitzer
Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7. — Kafu Nagai
The only certainty life contains is death. — Patricia Briggs
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted... — Carl Jung
Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded… — Mary Roach

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