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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Compassion
Motivational
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Incomplete
Include
Buddhist
Yoga

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