Does a yoga practice make life easier?

'Does yoga practice make life easier? Most assuredly, all that is onerous and cumbersome does not go away.

Yet our once implacable desire for certainty wavers in the face of something better: living in awe, wonder, and delight.

Life does not become easier: we become easier with life just as it is, without conclusions, fail-safe securities, or the promise of happily-ever-after endings.

Practice cannot and does not eliminate the extremes of life  What practice does do is give us direct access to an internal and ever-present refuges of peacefulness that exists inside of and despite all polarities.'

~ extracted from Donna Farhi, Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living