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How to maintain authentic spiritual friendship across different levels of belief

Our friend group includes people at very different stages of spiritual development - some are deep practitioners, some are seekers, some are skeptics - and lately our conversations feel forced because we're all trying not to offend anyone or sound too woo-woo or too cynical.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to preserve friendship can inadvertently sterilize the very conversations that might deepen it.

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“Where Are You with The spiritual life — what it means to practice?”

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