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A morning ritual for difficult seasons
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Four small morning rites for meeting difficult seasons without abandoning the body.
Well-being
The Etiquette of Interrupting a Practice
Households with young children, sick relatives, or demanding jobs rarely get uninterrupted practice time. What to do with the interruption itself.
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Most writing about spiritual discipline assumes an uninterrupted hour. Most actual lives do not offer one.
A child cries mid-meditation. A phone rings during prayer. A relative needs help exactly when the practice was meant to begin. The literature is largely silent on what to do with the interruption itself, as though the ideal practitioner simply does not live among other people who need things.
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