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When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One…

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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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Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and… — Robert Goolrick
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a… — Octave Mirbeau
Virtue is too often merely local. — Samuel Johnson
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad
The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a… — Chogyam Trungpa
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after… — C. D. Broad
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He… — Ronald Fisher
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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