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When divine love feels overwhelming

During morning prayer I sometimes feel this overwhelming love that seems too big for my heart to contain, and afterwards I feel spiritually hungover, exhausted but grateful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The human vessel requires gradual expansion to accommodate increasing intensities of divine presence without spiritual overwhelm.

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