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When spiritual expectations meet mundane reality

I went on a meditation retreat hoping for enlightenment and mostly just thought about my grocery list and now I feel spiritually defective.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between idealized spiritual experiences and actual practice creates feelings of inadequacy and spiritual failure.

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