You can separate your feelings from your response to them. By distinguishing your core emotions from those that pile on afterward, you don’t limit your emotional life; on the contrary, you unclutter it. It’s the clutter that leads you away from your true experience and into murkier territory.

Your duty is to recognize that in the midst of radical transformations, the Self remains stable. If you can come to an understanding of this—through asana, breathwork, meditation—you can soothe the discomfort brought on by external changes.

“The yogic thinking is that there’s part of us that’s unchanging—the spiritual part of us that has peace and joy and love. The nature of the world, however, is in flux.”

Posted on April 13th, 2011
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