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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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Negativity
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