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Nov 2019
3m 16s

26 - The Lost Ability to Love

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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Society drugged us when we were kids. They didn’t bring us up on the healthy, wholesome nourishment of play and work and the pleasures of the senses, and as we grew older, the pleasures of the mind. Instead, they addicted us to a drug called “approval.” A drug called “success.” A drug called "money" and "reputation" and "making it to the top" and "never feel ... Show More
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