The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment. 
Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give. 
By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.
Truth is one and the same at all times, though it is infinite in its manifestation. But each must find it by the realization of it within himself. And he can realize it only as he seeks to e mbody it in his life, so that all he is and does becomes more and more beautiful each day. The Centre
The Centre is not a building. It's us! Nathan Vanek (Hansraj), Susan Randall (Madhurta)Patricia Hendrick (Priyatma), Sharman Smith, and the many others who come here to teach, learn, practice, grow.
Nathan Vanek, whose Sanskrit name is Hansraj, is the Centre’s founder. He is a gifted teacher and writer. In his life, he has met masters Baba Hari Das, Baba Balik Nath, Ruth Dennison, Sri Chinmoy, and Swami Muktananda among others. He studied with the venerable U.N. Goenka for many years in Igatpurri, India, where he participated in a six-month silent retreat. For the next 23 years he lived with his Guru-ji, Swami Shyam, in Kullu, India, where he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in 1987 for Meditation, Eastern Studies and Spiritual Journalism. He may be reached at hansraj@centredelapaix.com
Susan Randall, Madhurta, the Centre manager, is an internationally certified yogi, educator and coach. She teaches group Somayog© and Transformation Meditation courses, providing Teacher Training programs in each modality. Her private practice offers one-to-one sessions in Your Yoga, Lifestyle Coaching and Quantum Touch(R) energy healing. Susan is a member of the Canadian Order of Naturopaths and Natural Therapists (ANN). Experience one of her Yoga Treat days, held regularly throughout the year, and please visit www.votrestyledevie.org madhurta@centredelapaix.com
Patricia Hendrick brings a strong foundation of yoga and meditation practice into her teaching, having studied Patanjali and Vedant in India for many years. Her focus is on using the training tools that are close at hand - body, breath, and mind - in simple ways, to unite with a deeper sense of ourselves and our surroundings. She is a certified Hatha Yoga instructor, and has taught awareness-based yoga classes at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre in Ottawa. priyatma@centredelapaix.com
Sharman Smith, born and raised in Toronto, studied biology at the University of Guelph. Sharman has worked with holistic centres, organic farms and alternative health communities for most of her adult life. Her fortunes were in learning different modalities and practices that boost the health and well-being of people. She is a certified yoga teacher. As well, she has studied and worked for the environment. These became her passions in life, along with music and being taken for walks by her black labrador, Gaia. She can be reached at sharman@centredelapaix.com