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When non-attachment feels impossible with real loss

I have been practicing non-attachment for years but my mother is dying of cancer and I cannot let go and I feel like a spiritual failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Spiritual concepts can become sources of self-judgment when they collide with the raw reality of love and loss.

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