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"When we are in touch with our human-heartedness, we think, feel, and act compassionately."

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The Spark of East and West Working Within

"The point is not to abandon scholarship, but to ground it, to personalize it, and to balance it with the fundamentals of mind training...."—Judy Lief, trustee and former Naropa president

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