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When spiritual study groups lose their shared purpose

Our study group has been reading spiritual texts together for two years but recently we've become divided between people who want academic discussion and people who want personal transformation and every meeting feels like a battle over what we're really doing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The tension between understanding the sacred intellectually and experiencing it directly can tear communities apart.

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