Holding on to anything blocks wisdom. ✨ Pema Chodron (2003). Comfortab…

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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom. ✨ Pema Chodron (2003). Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion, p.180, Shambhala Publications
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom. ✨ Pema Chodron (2003). Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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