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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
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