"Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise." - Elizabeth Gilbert
Besides the too-familiar neuroses of brooding and worrying, this speaks to me because of the emphasis on what little we can control. We can master ourselves to know our own natural flash points, weaknesses, and passions. We must dedicate ourselves to this cause, focus far more than is habitual on our state of mind or presence. And it helps immeasurably to weigh ourselves in the surroundings of the big picture... that our biggest mistake is unknown to billions of others, and practically nonexistent as far as the universe is concerned.
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