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When spiritual groups get hijacked by difficult dynamics

My meditation group has been meeting for three years and lately two people have been dominating every discussion and turning everything into debates about politics and the rest of us don't know how to say something without destroying the whole thing.

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A contemplative community is struggling with how to maintain sacred space when individual needs for expression conflict with collective need for peace.

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