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When Contemplative Practice Requires Your Mother Tongue

I'm fluent in English and German but when I try to meditate I can only find stillness in my childhood Croatian.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual and contemplative states may be most accessible through the language of earliest emotional formation.

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