Reply to Mariclare's reply to me
I find it makes a big difference to practice for like one minute--especially if you do all the parts, just really quickly. I did that the other day too. It was interesting actually, because I was trying to go to work, and I was already going to be late, and I found my work shirt on the floor all wrinkly and I was like "Shit" So I put it in the dryer to try to unwrinkle it, and then for some reason I had this wave of like: "I don't want to run anymore. I must practice." Because it's been really hard lately, but I know that I need to pass through this hardship in order to grow--but not practicing just puts it off. I need some acute hardship--and I need to practice through it, and that is how this will all break through. But anyway, that day, I practiced for like one minute, and then I went to write that in my journal: "I don't want to run anymore. I must practice." And my journal was in my bag, and in my bag I found another work shirt that was "perfectly" clean. And it just reminded me how much it matters to practice. How everything in one's life is just easier. But sometimes harder, too, in a different way.