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When repetitive prayer becomes compulsive

I started practicing the Jesus Prayer six months ago and now I find myself saying it constantly throughout the day, but I'm worried I'm becoming obsessive or using it to avoid dealing with real problems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The soul's hunger for continuous communion can become entangled with the ego's desire for spiritual bypassing of human responsibility.

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