How to Life an Extraordinary Life, by Stephen Cope - Christmas Eve part 2

Author of The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living, Stephen Cope
Bob Weisenbergon Jan 2, 2012
Contemporary Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.
Dedicate your work to something bigger than you are.
First : “Find your Dharma”
Gandhi from the point of view of the Gita
It doesn’t matter if you succeed or if you fail – whether you succeed or fail is none of your business, your job is to bring everything you’ve got to your dharma. 
Just out of curiosity, what translation do you use? Barbara Stoler Miller’s 
Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living
“Let go of the outcome ... and ... turn it over to God”.
Music
Now beginning to understand
“Once you’ve got some clarity about your dharma, then the calling is to bring everything you’ve got to it”.
Poetry is saturated with the body is transient and the soul survives
Quest for the True Self
Random House next year.
Surrender without any conditions – without any grasping for outcome – produced his most sublime work
“Turn it over to me”
Understanding what your gifts are and that you have certain responsibilities to your gifts

What gets you excited when you wake up and think about work in the morning?
eXemplar to one of the principles of the Gita.
“Yoga and Mozart”
Zero, as in “Take yourself to zero”

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