One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

When we start understanding that all challenges are really opportunities to learn and grow and become all that we are becoming, which is all being guided by nature and her desire to maintain perfect balance, then what could be wrong? If there is nothing wrong, then the burden of humanity has been lifted from my shoulder and I'm free to be me - to play, to cry, to laugh, to work, to explore, to serve, to unfold and grow.

Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance to our ecosystem, which also includes our atmosphere. Have you ever considered that we, you and I, are also apart of that?