purger

Dans les réunions que vous avez organisées pendant que je purgeais ma peine de deux ans, vous avez affiché mon portrait.
In meetings while I was serving the two-year sentence, you put up my picture.
Je purgeais trois longues années quand j'ai réalisé que je n'arriverai pas à m'aider tant que je n'apprendrais pas à aider les gens autour de moi.
It's a prison. I was doing a three-year stretch when I realized I wasn't gonna be able to help myself until I learned to help the people around me.
Et puis, il y a des années de cela, alors que je purgeais ma peine de prison depuis déjà longtemps, j'ai vu par hasard à la télé une interview de Joseph Campbell par Bill Moyers de la PBS et je décidai d'essayer la méditation.
And then years ago, already well into this prison sentence, I happened to watch a PBS Bill Moyers interview with Joseph Campbell, and I decided to try meditation.
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