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Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind Quotes: The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.
         

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.


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The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.
         



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