Yoga off the mat

The Gita's most quoted line: you are entitled to your work, never to its results. Do the thing, release the outcome, and don't use detachment as an excuse to do nothing.

“Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached.”

Meditation is not an extremes contest: no starving, no gorging, no oversleeping, no all-nighters. The path runs through the middle.

“Verily yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, nor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, O Arjuna.”

A four-part recipe for staying clear around other people: friendliness toward the happy, compassion toward the suffering, gladness at goodness, and an even keel toward the rest.

“By the cultivation of friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards pain and joy towards merit and indifference towards demerit [the yogin should attain] the undisturbed calm of the mind-stuff.”