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Practicing G.R.A.C.E.: How to Bring Compassion into Your Interactions with Others
By Joan Halifax — 2012
My hope is that the G.R.A.C.E. model will help you to actualize compassion in your own life and that the impact of this will ripple out to benefit the people with whom you interact each day as well as countless others.
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