between nothing and everything

In my yoga class yesterday, my yoga teacher had some words of wisdom I found remarkably profound, applicable not only to the contortion in which I crouched while I heard them, but also to big bad crazy LIFE! He said that the goal is not to reach perfection, which does not exist. Rather it is to find a place of peace, acceptance, and challenge somewhere between nothing and everything. He said it is only in peace that we grow. That we need to separate the "ego self" from the "authentic self," which is the teacher that resides in us all.

Then he had us stand on our heads.

And today I ache all over. In the best possible way.