It doesn't matter

I had been neglecting something very important the last few months, and that was daily yoga and meditation. When I resumed the practice, I was quickly struck by how valuable it is, and the lack of recent practice explained my recent uneasiness.
There is one realisation that strikes me very powerfully when I sit in meditation. You withdraw into your centre, get in touch with your core, and everything else around you fades in significance. This leads to the understanding that this would be possible whatever the surrounding circumstances were.
In other words, what is happening around you, the circumstances that you find yourself in, can not really affect you, who you are, what you are made of. That is always the same. And when you understand that, it makes it easier to face whatever comes in your day. Because it can not really affect you. Nothing can really change what you are.
It is partly to come to this understanding, that Life throws us the curveballs that it so loves to pepper us with. Because through the endurance of suffering and tragedy and triumph and despair, as we learn its separation from ourselves and our state of being, we start to come towards some very powerful knowledge.

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