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We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

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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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Wrong
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