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Ajahn Sumedho
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Start Where You Are: Ajahn Sumedho

April 6, 2020April 17, 2020 Vanessa Able

"Whatever way you are feeling now, whether you like it or not, whether it is inspired or depressed, right or wrong, sane or crazy, it is what it is in this moment."

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