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When spiritual practice conflicts with bodily desires

I've been celibate for three years pursuing spiritual growth but my body wants what it wants and I'm starting to think I'm fighting myself instead of purifying myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Ascetic disciplines intended to liberate can become forms of self-violence when they deny rather than integrate human wholeness.

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