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How to handle the aftermath of spiritual experiences that fade

I had a profound awakening experience on retreat last year but now I'm back to feeling completely ordinary and I'm chasing that feeling like an addiction.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Grasping for peak experiences creates the very suffering that obscures the ordinary perfection that is always already present.

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