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Aug 2019
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007 - A Practical Spirituality

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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We’ve been taught to look for our happiness in outside things: money, power, romance, approval. That’s the first thing we need to understand if we want to come awake, which is the same thing as saying: if we want to love, if we want freedom, if we want joy and peace and spirituality. In that sense, spirituality is the most practical thing in the whole wide w ... Show More
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