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When studying spiritual psychology becomes spiritual avoidance

I read Islamic psychology books obsessively trying to fix my nafs but the reading itself has become another form of procrastination from actual inner work

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Intellectual engagement with spiritual concepts serves as sophisticated resistance to direct experience and embodied practice.

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“Where Are You with Islamic psychology — nafs and spiritual wellbeing?”

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