Householding is unironically the hardest fucking thing I've ever done.
Any period of relative stability and the progress with meditation is just massive. Just takes a tiny bit of disruption to throw it all off balance, too.
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When something stays well-maintained in an environment like that, it's either been hardened like a callus or is as stubborn as a tick.
The blood-based metaphors are not accidental.