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Feb 2021
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77 - You're Tied to Things That Don't Ex...

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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We’re scared about things that are not. We’re tied to things that don’t exist. They’re illusions. They’re falsehoods. They’re beliefs; they’re not realities. The agonies we go through over things that we have—we have convinced ourselves that our happiness depends upon them, but it doesn’t. 
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