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Apr 2021
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"Make Love of Your Self Perfect" - Retre...

TARA BRACH
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"Make Love of Your Self Perfect" - retreat talk (2021-04-14) - Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the life within us, and the pathways of practice that lead to holding our own being and all life in a boundless tender heart (a talk from the IMCW Spring 2021 online weeklong silent retreat).

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