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When spiritual divergence affects longtime friendships

My two closest friends and I used to share the same spiritual community but we've all ended up in different places and now when we get together there are things we can't talk about anymore. We're trying to maintain the friendship but avoiding what used to be central to our connection.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The paths that lead us toward truth sometimes lead us away from each other, leaving us to discover whether love can exist without shared understanding.

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