Re: Broken my practice, advice needed1

["Alan" <fish_studios@...>]

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