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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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