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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

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
Suffer
Noble
Suffering
Death
Truth
Concisely
Irrefutable
Impermanence
Resist

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