The Importance of Humility in Religion

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No matter what religious tradition you might find yourself in or you might know people in, the first general rule of thumb is that of humility. We're talking about any kind of religious practice we would hopefully want to know is just taking place in the context of humility. There's data that looks at and studies that look at religious practice and people who talk about spiritual reality like the more deeply committed you become they tend to be spiritually exploration practices.

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