Consistency becomes real when conditions stop being identical.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Anyone can keep a routine during a good month. It is only when the conditions change, when you are tired or travelling or carrying something heavy, that you find out whether the thing was real or whether it was being held up by favourable circumstances. Difficulty is not the enemy of consistency. It is the test that reveals it.

The next time conditions turn against you, treat it as the interesting part rather than the interruption. See what version of the practice survives. Whatever survives is the part you actually own.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Has your routine ever been tested by a genuinely difficult week?

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