Bhagavad Gita 2.48

Perform your duty established in yoga, abandoning attachment, even-minded in success and failure.

Theme: Anxiety

"Perform your duty established in yoga, abandoning attachment, even-minded in success and failure. This evenness of mind is called yoga."

Modern explanation

In the middle of the day, return to this: Steadiness, not victory, is the real prize. Treat outcomes as weather passing through.

Practical application

Pause for sixty seconds. Feel your feet on the floor. Notice that this moment is, in fact, survivable.

Reflection question

If I removed the imagined future, what's actually happening right now?

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