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When spiritual partnerships become guarded

My meditation partner and I have been sitting together for months but lately I've been experiencing things during practice that I don't know how to share with her and I can sense she's holding back too. We've created this unspoken agreement to keep our experiences private but the distance is making our practice feel mechanical.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very intimacy of shared practice can awaken a protective privacy that paradoxically isolates us from the connection we seek.

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