Christina McPhail

When I love, I am living Yoga.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Love in its purest sense is not based upon what you get from the relationship, but on what the relationship allows you to give. the depth of your love is not reflected in what the other makes you feel, but in your willingness to give of yourself. Love’s job is to lead to intimacy with what is enduring in yourself and in others. Whether this

Are you so invested in being seen as successful that you hold on to things longer than is good for you?

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

How often do we consider that we have failed when we do not achieve what the world defines as success?

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

It is in the nitty-gritty details of your life that you live your yoga.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater

Each of us has a dharma: a purpose, something to contribute to life. Perhaps happiness is the state that we feel when we find what it is that we can contribute with joy to the world.

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I can be right for me in this moment and simultaneously not need to impose that view on you.

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Let yourself imagine are you a “bigger container” in which you can hold the person in a way that is neither threatening to you or them, nor diminishing of your own point of view. Notice your bodily sensations. Let yourself enjoy this moment of compassion and empathy

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To cultivate empathy means to see the world through the eyes of another without judgement, without trying to “fix” it, without needing it to be different. It is acceptance independent of agreement, understanding without any implied coercion for oneself or the other to change.

Living Your Yoga, Lasater