This is what most are looking for. This is what the church says it is offering. This is what the church says we can't grow without, so you better be here at church. However, in my private conversations, most (i mean most- like 95%) of church goers secretly tell me is that they are doing the journey alone, have no friends wanting to go on a deeper journey than showing up to church and running programs until they are exhausted, and are asking is THIS it? Is this really as far as fellowship goes?
All most of us want is a few spiritual buddies.... even church is not offering to connect people in it.
"There is the story of a disciple who approached his teacher and asked, ”It seems to me that by having good friends and advancing together with them, one has already halfway attained the way of enlightenment. Is this way of thinking correct?" The teacher replied, "This way of thinking is not correct. Having good friends and advancing together with them is not half the enlightened way but all the enlightened way." (Jim Palmer. Notes From (Over) The Edge: Unnasking The Truth To End Your Suffering)
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