I’ve seen both nuns and lay seekers become serious enough about their interior practice to rearrange their schedule or make a special space for prayer in their bedrooms, houses, or apartments. I’ve seen them begin to stop at a sacred shrine or chapel on a daily basis, change previous interests, relationships, hobbies, and patterns in order to take up a serious meditation practice that requires time, silence, and solitude. It seems that the first step to an ongoing practice is this first renunciation, the renunciation of our former way of life. Even though the work is interior, we mortals
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