The ritual (if you don’t like that word try routine, consistency, habit) is how the ordinary becomes extraordinary. It’s how transformation actually happens. Not in a single lightning-bolt moment, but in the slow, steady practice of returning, again and again. And we’ll say it again, it’s so easy to fall back into old patterns. We’re householders. We live in real lives, with families, dishes, deadlines, distractions. We’re not practicing in a vacuum.