Forces that are out of your control can take everything away from you except one thing: your freedom to decide how you react to them. You don't control what happens to you in life, you control what you feel and what you do when something happens to you.

(Viktor Frankl)

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield

Being present is the opposite of missing out on life.

The first step towards change is awareness.

The second step is acceptance.

(Nathaniel Branden)

"The fastest way to get the next pose is to perfect the ones you already have."

(Sharath Jois, Mysore 2011)

A flower does not think about competing with the flower next to it. It simply blooms.

It is impossible to separate what we eat from our health. What we eat influences our health, there is no way around it.

It's hard to save the world voluntarily

when others are destroying it full-time.

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk[.]”

(John Keats in a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, 1820)

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904