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Why secular meditation feels less meaningful than prayer

I tried replacing prayer with meditation but it feels hollow because I'm just talking to myself instead of something greater.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Meditative practices lose transformative power when stripped of connection to transcendent reality or divine presence.

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