The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel…

Pema Chodron
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The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart. ✨ Pema Chodron (2001). Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, p.164, Shambhala Publications
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