Warriorship Quotes

• The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sad
  • Brave
  • Warrior

• Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • War
  • Tradition
  • Aggression

• 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.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Growing
  • Armor

• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • Essence
  • Refusing

• The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. 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.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Live
  • Eyes

• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • May
  • Suffering

• The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Space
  • Challenge