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Aug 2019
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009 - Giving is Receiving

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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A good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you’re doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you’re good. Or as the great Sufi would say, “A saint is one until he or she knows it.” Unselfconscious! 
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