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When spiritual practice groups develop unspoken hierarchies

Our meditation group has been sitting together for a year and there's this unspoken thing where three of us have gotten 'serious' about practice and the other two seem more casual about it, but no one wants to be the person who says maybe we need different levels of commitment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A community formed around shared seeking has unconsciously created insider and outsider dynamics that undermine the very openness they came together to cultivate.

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