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Jun 2021
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89 - Do Not Suppress Your Desires

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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Suppress your desire and you are likely to be tied to it. Whereas if you look at your desire and see it for what it is really worth, and how you are preparing the grounds for misery and disappointment and depression, your desire will then be transformed into  a preference.  When you go through life with preferences but don’t let your happiness depend on any ... Show More
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