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You are all spirits. It is not that you have a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.

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Adi Da
Age: 69 †
Born: 1939
Born: November 3
Died: 2008
Died: November 27
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