"One day passes and another day comes along,……" — Chogyam Trungpa
"One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes."
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168 Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful,…
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise,…
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are…
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind;…
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world,…
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Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful…
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Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice…
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we…
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