My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too-but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.