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When spiritual seeking becomes competitive in friend groups

Our book club started reading spiritual texts and now it feels like a competition over who has the deepest insights or most authentic practice. What used to be nourishing conversations have become performances and several people have stopped participating as much.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ego finds ways to turn even the pursuit of transcendence into a hierarchy of worthiness.

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