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When increased religious practice leads to self-righteousness

My wife says I am becoming self-righteous since I started practicing more seriously and I can see she is right but I do not know how to be religious without judging

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Spiritual progress inflates the ego rather than purifying it, creating distance from others through subtle superiority.

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