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You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.

Gary Zukav

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Gary Zukav
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 17
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