Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wish…

Jack Kornfield
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Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you. ✨ Jack Kornfield (2014). A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times, p.61, Sounds True
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