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Being a mom Quote by Tara Brach

“We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.” quote by Tara Brach — Download Open image

“We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.”

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