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When spiritual insights about selflessness meet practical responsibilities

My meditation retreats keep showing me that the self is an illusion but I still have to pay my mortgage and take care of my kids and I don't know how to live both truths.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Profound spiritual realizations about the nature of identity create a jarring disconnect with the practical demands of embodied life and social obligations.

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