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Silent Meditation Retreats - Is That Really Possible?

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In a real retreat, if you choose to, your brain retreats into itself. That's a different kind of retreat that into the phone. And it allows a chance for it to go places it wouldn't otherwise go If somebody wasn't talking to you. So I think there's something really powerful there that's not obvious until you've experienced it.

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