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Pema Chodron

May 23, 2008

It’s Not Our Rice, Even If We Paid For It

I found this on?Gerry Straub's blog: True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves; but from realizing our kinship with all things. -Pema Chodron ?Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living From our supper conversation yesterday, I gathered the … [Read more...] about It’s Not Our Rice, Even If We Paid For It

Raising Our Daughters Gerry Straub,  our kinship with the other inhabitants of the world,  Pema Chodron

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