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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

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
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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