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Sep 2019
3m 35s

019 - Why You Don't Want Happiness

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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One sign that you’ve woken up is you're asking yourself, “Am I crazy or is the whole world crazy?" We’re living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything; and it's all been feed to us by our crazy society. The sooner we see this, the better for our mental and spiritual health. 
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