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 As I'm clearing the office, thinking of all the places I've cleared, all the roles I've relinquished, all the relationships I've weaned, all the lines I've crossed. I've always been one feeling safe in my corner, never up for a change, but life takes it's turns and at each turn we make an adjustment. Each turn, each adjustment opens my eyes to this one truth, that in fact yoga professes - everything that rises must fall, everything that goes up must go down. We start with nothing, spend a lifetime building relations, careers, riches, comforts but one after the other we have to relinquish each of those until we again end with nothing. That's the cycle of life.

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