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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
Touched
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Heart
Bottomless

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