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When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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