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Small and repeated beats large and occasional
A two-minute practice performed every morning shapes a life more than an elaborate ritual performed twice a year. Consistency is the variable that matters, and it is the one most often sacrificed for elaborateness.
Three anchors
Most sustainable practices use anchors — fixed moments in an existing routine that the practice attaches to. Lighting a lamp before the first cup of tea. A single round of japa on the commute. A line of the Gita read before the phone at night.
Choose anchors you already never miss, and the practice inherits their reliability.
When it lapses
It will. The tradition treats interruption as ordinary rather than as failure. The instruction is simply to resume — not to compensate, not to begin a stricter regime, just to start again the next morning.
