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In truth, if one was totally honest with themselves,

they would be able to understand

the benefit of their own chosen spiritual practices.

The problem becomes we don't understand what's going on,

and we use spiritual practices, spiritual techniques, our whole spiritual growth, if you will, is just another thing

to get into. People get into religions that way. People get into yoga that way. People get into

gurus that way. It's just something that the ego, something that the self-concept, can just

start to define itself as.

I believe this way. I've done this. I've read this. I can do this.

With any of the different religious or self-help or yoga, any of it.

If you let your ego, if you let your mind make it that, you just changed clothes.

And changing clothes doesn't really do anything.

Maybe other people will look upon it differently.

But inside, you'll know.

You're just as nervous when you see somebody as to whether you're doing the asin

is right or whether you can quote the scriptures

who go to somebody else or whether you said something wrong as you were with your fancy clothes and nice course.

It just becomes another thing to get into.

That's absurd.

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