Joe Biden
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She never got upset about things.
And this is in the beginning of my career when I was living in New York and I was broke and a lot of crazy things happened to me, really scary, traumatic things.
And I would always ask her, her name is Marianne.
I would always say, why are you never upset?
So I attributed that to her spiritual life, but it didn't speak to me.
And then later on, I started practicing yoga, Ashtanga yoga.
And my teacher, Eddie Stern, he still has a
Love Eddie, he's great.
Yeah, he's amazing.
I got quite caught up in and competitive about like first series, second series, third series.
But one thing I noticed is that a lot of people would come into his practice, his studio where he taught, and they wouldn't even do the poses.
They would just go and sit in front of
the statue of Ganesh or light candles or prayer.
And I realized, and Eddie pointed it out to me, because sometimes I would have injuries or I would be traveling and I couldn't practice yoga.
And he'd say, look, are you breathing?
And I'd say, yes.
And he said, you're practicing yoga.
So I realized that I was still too caught up in the physical poses.
And he's like, no, you don't understand.
You're missing the whole point.