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How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have occurred? This depends entirely on the tendencies we reinforce today.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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