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 1 1|   from an early age. In later life she described how, at the
 2 1|       in the last year of his life. After his death she continued
 3 1|     live the remainder of her life in a secluded place and
 4 1|      to practice. In 1945, as life disrupted by World War II
 5 1|     the three of them began a life devoted entirely to meditation.
 6 1|      flourished to this day. ~Life at the retreat was frugal,
 7 1|     In the later years of her life she developed cataracts
 8 2|     as a medical doctor for a life in a nun's community connected
 9 2|      version of a housewife's life -- considerably freer in
10 2|  freer in their eyes than the life of an actual housewife,
11 2|   would be futile, and that a life devoted to administrative
12 2|    hardships of a meditator's life in the forest. ~In some
13 2| become less demanding; and as life softens, so does the practice,