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The Pema Chödrön Foundation

January 12, 2012 WHAT IT IS TO BE HUMAN Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether.

EXCERPTED FROM Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, page 6

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