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The quiet art of returning to the self
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A healing journey through attention, restraint, and the ancient practices that gather a scattered day back toward the self.
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Why Some Traditions Forbid Explaining a Miracle
On the discipline of letting an event remain unexplained, rather than rushing to interpret it.
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Some traditions actively discourage practitioners from offering a confident explanation for an event experienced as miraculous, preferring the event to remain, deliberately, unexplained.
This can look like intellectual timidity from outside the tradition. From inside it, the restraint is often understood as protecting the event from a specific kind of diminishment: the moment an unusual experience is fully explained, it frequently stops functioning as an opening and starts functioning as a closed case.
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