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When friendship is strained by spiritual transformation

My closest friend started following a spiritual teacher who asks for complete devotion and she's becoming someone I don't recognize and when I express concern she says I'm being negative and blocking her growth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love and genuine concern can look like resistance when someone is walking a path that changes who they are becoming.

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