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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

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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Aspiring
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Trips
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Negativity
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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Use your life to wake you up.
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