Wherever you are, you have to learn to handle things properly. You can’t always change environments, running here and there. But once you know how to handle one small family, you can handle a larger group. A family life is a training place for public life. If you can’t face a sharp word from your mate, how can you face such words from a stranger? The world is a training place where you learn to use the world without getting attached. Instead of saying, “To one of discrimination, everything is painful,” it becomes, “To one of discrimination, everything is pleasurable.” A person with such an understanding has the magic wand to convert everything into happiness. Pleasure and pain are but the outcome of your approach. The same world can be a heaven or a hell.

From Sri Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Commentary to Book II, Sutra 15, Buckingham, Virginia: Integral Yoga Publications, 2007 (first published in 1978), p. 102.