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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Ajahn Brahm

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Ajahn Brahm
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 7
Theoretical Physicist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera
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