Your inner way of being influences what you do, but what you do also influences your inner way of being. Parker was falling into a common trap. He was spending a lot of time and energy on the internal work and formal practices, on strengthening his internal groundedness, but he wasn’t necessarily manifesting these qualities in his everyday actions. His being was out of alignment with his doing. Instead of a harmonious feedback loop—in which being strengthens doing and doing strengthens being—Parker was stuck in gridlock. Too many of his daily activities and routines ran counter to the
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