Accepting Quote by Brenda Shoshanna

“When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.” quote by Brenda Shoshanna — Download Open image

“When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.”

Brenda Shoshanna

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