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When community spiritual fasting highlights personal spiritual struggles

My mosque community fasts together during Ramadan but I feel like everyone else has this beautiful spiritual experience while I'm just counting hours until iftar and pretending to be holy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Group spiritual practices can amplify feelings of inadequacy when others appear to access the sacred states that feel elusive to oneself.

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“Where Are You with Fasting as spiritual practice?”

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