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When spiritual seekers become spiritually competitive

I joined an online Sufi discussion group but everyone seems to be competing about who's more enlightened, and it's making me lose faith in finding real spiritual community.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ego infiltrates even mystical communities, turning the path toward God into a contest of the self.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sufi mysticism — the inner path in Islam?”

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