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# Re: Broken my practice, advice needed1

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- Subject: Re: Broken my practice, advice needed1
- From: "Alan" <fish_studios@...>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 02:48:22 -0000
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    I was in a similar position myself when I first started the work of
    IIH. It was a few weeks before finals and so when finals did roll
    around I didn't have the time, or the energy, to put forth into my
    studies. So I put them on hold in the back of my mind for two
    weeks. Well, a few of my areas of progress did suffer, but not too
    badly :)

    But here is something that helped me:

    "The path of the hermetic, the quabbalist, is not the path of the
    aestetic hermit who withdrawls himself from society and practices
    only in secret. No, the way of the hermetic is something that is to
    be walked and expressed at every moment with the totality of the
    self.

    You want to practice, then practice throughout your everyday life,
    when you wake up, when you eat your breakfast, when you walk to
    work, when you sleep. One pointedness, mindfullness, observation of
    thoughts, body control, the working towards a rudimentary elemental
    equilibrium...it's all something that can be done at any moment in
    time without anyone really knowing about it." -- Peter Reist

    Hermetics is a way of life and a state of mind. Keep that life and
    mind, and whether or not you have time to practice, doesn't affect
    what you are and how you live. You are who you want to be. And you
    live how you want to live. Just don't lose that, and everything
    will be fine.

    -- Alan

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