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When Spiritual Commitments Feel Too Large for Your Current Capacity

My meditation group wants me to take bodhisattva vows but I can't promise to save all sentient beings when most days I can barely save myself from my own anxiety.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The ego measures spiritual vows against its present limitations rather than trusting the growth that commitment itself creates.

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