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We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

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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Loneliness
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Anger
Going
Sorrow
Afraid
Instead
Forever
Acting

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