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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. ✨ Dalai Lama, Herbert Benson, Robert Thurman, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman (2012). MindScience: An East-West Dialogue, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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