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Feb 2020
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40 - Listen and Unlearn

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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Some of us get woken up by the harsh realities of life. We suffer so much that we wake up. Other people keep bumping again and again into life. They still go on sleepwalking. It doesn't occur to them that there may be a better way. If you haven’t been bumped sufficiently by life, and you haven’t suffered enough, then there is another way: to listen. 
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