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Another quote from Joan Borysenko's “Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson”:

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can d…

In Joan Borysenko's book “Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson”, she quotes a Jungian analyst Theodor Seifert's analysis of Snow White, specifically about the queen in front of the mirror, wanting…

I finished the Ashtanga yoga primary series for the first time today, during led class with Sharath Jois.

After class I went up to him and thanked him, and said (jokingly):

Me: So Sunday at 7.30? (7.3…

I'm a big proponent of truth. The truth is that the war on drugs isn't working. The truth is that it's only driving up the cost of the drugs and the profits to the druglords. The truth is that because…

One more from Steven Pressfield's Turning Pro (do get it):

The habits and addictions of the amateur are conscious or unconscious self-inflicted wounds. Their payoff is incapacity. When we take our M1…

From Steven Pressfield's magnificent (and short) book Turning Pro:

Turning pro changes how people perceive us. Those who are still fleeing from their own fears will now try to sabotage us. They will …

Apple CEO Tim Cook:

"I do feel we have a responsibility to create jobs," Cook told Bloomberg. "I don't think we have a responsibility to create a certain kind of job, but I think we do have a respons…

Gabe Rivera, founder of Techmeme:

‘I don’t want to deal with the obligations attached to raising money, and I still want to be able to take a nap after lunch.’”

That's pretty much what I feel. I've …

What if my job is not to work on my yoga practice. But rather, my job is to create the conditions under which my body can work on its practice, using its own intelligence.

So instead of me trying to g…

I'm riding the scooter home

from my morning yoga practice

the full moon is so incredibly beatiful

as it sits there hovering in the sky

makes me want to cry