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[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2001). Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now, p.89, New World Library
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[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2001). Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now, p.89, New World Library

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