Without challenges, there would be no opportunity to evolve.

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

Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

Have you ever noticed the perfection of nature? The seasons and how one changes into the next, the falling leaves, composting soil, rains, new seedlings, sunshine, growth, blossoms, etc. Grass grows, deer eats grass, lion eats deer, deer population is stabilized so there is grass for other animals; sunrise and sunset, boy and girl, winter and summer.

Be gentle with everything in your life.

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.