I emphasize IN because most times we are of the world. What happens outside owns and consumes us. We have the illusion that power is to consume the world at our fingertips with a double click on our Apple Wallet, but really it consumes us. Our energy is getting zapped through our eyes, our ears, and our taste buds every second.

A hero is not the one who flies and immediately takes action out of impulse. Heroes don’t fly, they sit down.

They sit with things, go deep into them, and have a strong yearning to uncover the underlying truth beneath them and what’s around them.

Stress, heat, and sweat in New York in the summer are a real thing, especially when heat waves are becoming more frequent, and the heat feels like it’s more real than ever. But worry not, there’s actually a breathing technique called sitali that cools the body down. Learn to breathe and how to beat the heat.

A great musical work has no external purpose other than to be itself. But if you allow yourself, if you immerse deeply enough, you will experience it. Through music, we enter the present. It is an expanded present. In this moment, we release ourselves into reality, into the eternal now where the past and future lose their importance.

BATHTUB YOGA? YES, IT’S A THING — UNWINDING AT NIGHT

There is an extraordinary booze and drug-free way to calm down your body and mind after an agitated day, and this is what it looks like: three simple yoga stretches + a hot bath.