It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiBe equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.
Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiYou don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.
Sivaya SubramuniyaswamiThis physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami