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When spiritual communities avoid examining their practice

Our meditation group has been sitting together for three years and we've gotten comfortable with the silence, but lately I feel like we're all just performing spirituality rather than actually grappling with what contemplative practice is supposed to be doing to us. We've never talked about whether any of this is actually changing us or if we're just going through the motions together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The shared commitment that brought your group together has become a comfortable routine that may be preventing the very transformation it was meant to facilitate.

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