Everybody has an angle

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The baker you buy from every day.
Your best friend.
The pharmacist downstairs.
The lottery vendor at the corner kiosk.
Your yoga teacher/student.
The fishmonger down the street.
And you as well, naturally.

We all need an angle or a plan to pursue, and everybody should have a stance on some matter.

Doing our practice breath after breath, day in day out, may help us accept that reality and discover where is our angle and what is our stance - to our benefit and even though we come with trouble.

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