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How spiritual practices become empty routines

My meditation app congratulated me for a thirty-day streak but I have just been hitting play and not actually meditating for the last two weeks.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The form of practice can persist long after its essential spirit has departed, creating an illusion of progress.

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