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Jan 2020
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37 - What You Call Happiness ... Isn''t

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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From Anthony DeMello's book The Way to Love.  Narration by Paul Coutinho. What you call the experience of happiness is not happiness at all but the excitement and thrill caused by some person or thing or event. True happiness is un-caused. You are happy for no reason at all. And true happiness cannot be experienced. It is not within the realm of consciousnes ... Show More
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