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The Most Practical Thing In The World

by Anthony De Mello Legacy

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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 to understand if you want to come awake, which is the same thing as saying: if you want to love, if youwant freedom, joy and peace. In that sense, spirituality is the most practical thing in the whole wide world. I challenge anyone to think of anything more practical than spirituality —not piety, not devotion, not religion, not worship, but spirituality—waking up!

HappinessLoveFreedomJoyPeaceWaking UpEmotional HealingInner PeaceEnergyMaterialismEnergy ProtectionPractical LoveMaterialism CritiquesSpirits

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Look at the heartache everywhere.

Look at the loneliness.

Look at the fear,

The confusions,

The conflicts in the hearts of people,

Inner conflict,

Outer conflict.

Suppose somebody gave you a way of getting rid of all of that.

Suppose somebody gave you a way of stopping that tremendous drainage of energy,

Of health,

Of the emotions that come from these conflicts and confusions,

Would you want that?

Suppose somebody showed us a way where we would truly love one another and be at peace at last.

Can you think of anything more practical than that?

But here you have people thinking that big business is more practical or politics is more practical or science is more practical.

What's the earthly use of putting a man in the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

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