When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

Everyone tries to make the water flow to his mill.

To truly feel seen by another person makes you feel so peaceful.

Yoga gave me life again, a passion and a purpose, I credit Jenni Wendell with turning The Yamas Niyamas around.

Nine requisites for contented living: health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of god. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.