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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
Bottomless
Touched
Discover
Touch
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Heart

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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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