Ultimately, everyone wants to be accepted (to be loved), and everyone wants to do the right thing (what is true to them); yet, most of the time, being accepted and doing the right thing are at two opposing ends of the same spectrum.

gunas, yoga, musicUrvil James VillaruelJanuary 10, 2016Love, self love, yoga, understanding, wisdom, insight, consciousness, fear based, fear, love based, society, social norms

Believing Is Only Half The Battle.

One thing that these great inspirational quotes have in common is that they’re all missing that one most essential element that brings you out of your own head and into your body.

gunas, yogaUrvil James VillaruelJanuary 9, 2016do work, belief, action, lifestyle, philosophy, self belief, hard work, consciousness

From Student Into Teacher, While Forever Remaining The Student.

What makes a great teacher? Is it skill? Technique? Does it require a specified format or predetermined pattern of call and responses? Can a real teacher be developed or must they go out and develop themselves?

Remembering Your Inner Child.

The banker that hates their current job always used to love playing basketball as a child. The person peddling stock prices on the NSX once loved to spend their time figuring out how to cook.

gunasUrvil James VillaruelJanuary 4, 2016inner child, happiness, yoga, yogi, life, exploration, self, love

It All Starts With The Breath...

The breath: our most essential, energetic resource for sustaining all life. So subtle that we hardly ever stop to think about it.

gunas, yogaUrvil James VillaruelJanuary 2, 2016breath, breath work, prana, yoga, yogi, insight, life, perspectives, martial arts

Something Worthy Of A Re-Run.

Unfortunately, what often serves us is seldom the easiest. We tend to fear the most appropriate choice, or even fear the person that we may become because of it - our true, authentic self - because we are unwilling to face the hardship that goes along with it.

gunas, yogaUrvil James VillaruelDecember 29, 2015life, lifestyle, yoga, yogi, insight, rerun, mind, movie theatre of the mind, perspectives, star wars, yoda

It Definitely Goes Beyond The Camera...

So much more goes into photography than I initially anticipated, and most of that comes not from what you have at the ready, but what accessories you choose to employ in order to help enhance your storytelling prowess.

photography tipsUrvil James VillaruelDecember 26, 2015photos, photography, canon, nikon, insight, photography tips, adobe, photoshop, lightroom

To Do Is To Know.

Life isn't about sitting back and having the world presented to you on a shiny, silver platter; it's about discerning your own manifested reality for your self.

gunasUrvil James VillaruelDecember 21, 2015yoga, yogi, consciousness, life, insights, truth, do work

The Path Of Self-ish-ness Into Self-less-ness.

Your mind is that limit. Your mind is the origin of the self. And so, I began my journey from self-ish-ness into self-less-ness. No mind. No problem.

gunas, martial arts, yogaUrvil James VillaruelDecember 4, 2015yoga, martial arts, wisdom, insights, life, consciousness, featured martial arts

One Of Those 'Must-Watch'es, For Sure.

Consciousness through a true state of awakedness.

gunas, yogaUrvil James VillaruelNovember 30, 2015awakedness, yoga, yogi, meditation, consciousness

A World Of Stimulation.

Whether it be music, video games, TV, caffeine, carbs, sugar, fat, cocaine, LSD, marijuana or mushrooms - we're all on drugs.

gunasUrvil James VillaruelNovember 28, 2015vices, life, lifestyle, insights, indifference, non-separation, un-attachment

From First To Last: The Art Of Putting Out Great Albums.

Nowadays, it can be quite hard to find albums that are just as dope from the very first opening track to the very last closing one.

The Family Of My Family Is My "Cousin."

So, why is it that it takes us being told that a stranger is something more for us to begin treating them like something more? Why does this sudden, perceived narrative - real or imaginary, close or far - allow us to be at ease in a group of strangers, now making themselves out to be our distant relatives? Love.

gunasUrvil James VillaruelNovember 21, 2015love, cousins, family, bonds, life, spread love

The Nowness Of 'Play.'

Everything that you seek is in the here and now. No matter how far you travel, no matter how much you seek, no matter how much you do, you will always be carrying with you the heaviness that is in your heart - lest you first release that heaviness by getting to know the Self.

gunas, yogaUrvil James VillaruelNovember 12, 2015nowness, yoga, presence, life, seeking

An Ode To Jobs — And The Yoga Of Apple.

How many Apple products do you consume on a daily basis? How many of those Apple products have counseled you through hard times? Allowed your soul to fly? Allowed the artist within you to become fully realized?

gunas, yogaUrvil James VillaruelNovember 10, 2015steve jobs, apple, mac, here's to the crazy ones, creativity, be creative, yoga, yogi, love

Where Is The Love?

Why is it that, following the big Love-craze of the 1960s, we’ve slowly begun to fall off the music-as-a-movement wagon?

gunas, music, yogaUrvil James VillaruelNovember 8, 2015truth, good music, music, life, honesty, creativity

The Happy, Healthy Universe Within.

These microbes live in and around our human bodies, helping us to direct an appropriate daily functioning.

gunas, healthUrvil James VillaruelNovember 7, 2015health, health tips, microbes, microcosm, macrocosm, human biology

It's Hard Out Here For A Homie.

The more you work, the better the opportunities that will eventually present themselves. However, I think the misunderstanding here lies in the two most pivotal words from that sentence, “M-O-R-E" and "W-O-R-K.”

gunasUrvil James VillaruelNovember 7, 2015yoga, yogi, enlightenment, love, inspiration, warrior of light, life, lifestyle