Secrecy and sacrifice: practices for spiritual enlightenment – LGBT Weekly

Secrecy and sacrifice: practices for spiritual enlightenment
LGBT Weekly
In these practices, it's not about what we are giving up, but more about what can we add in our lives to increase our spiritual enlightenment. This issue, I'd like to talk about two more spiritual practices that are not made easy in our culture. ...

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