Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. (Pema Chodron)

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

Pema Chodron

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