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When spiritual communities struggle between informal intimacy and structured growth

Our meditation group started as a few friends sitting together in silence, but it's grown into something bigger and now people want teachers and structure and official teachings, while others want to keep it simple. I'm caught between feeling protective of what we had and knowing that growth means change.

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The very success of something sacred can threaten to destroy what made it sacred in the first place.

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