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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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