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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
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