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When meditation feels like self-deception

I've been meditating for three years and yesterday I realized I might just be sitting there doing nothing and fooling myself into thinking it's spiritual growth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The practitioner confronts the possibility that their spiritual practice may be elaborate self-deception rather than genuine transformation.

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