My college friends and I used to share everything but now we're all in our thirties and some of us have found different spiritual paths and others have become militantly secular and our group chat has become a minefield of passive-aggressive comments about each other's choices. I miss the closeness we had but don't know if we can find our way back to it.
More people experience this than they realize.
The very diversity of spiritual seeking that should enrich friendship can instead become a source of judgment that slowly strangles the love that once held a group together.
“Where Are You with Christian mysticism — the contemplative tradition?”
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