“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition 1947–2019

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