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When self-improvement becomes another form of escape

Every book I read about presence and every retreat I attend makes me more aware of how absent I am from my actual life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The pursuit of spiritual knowledge can become a sophisticated avoidance of present-moment reality.

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