Author: Yoga With Brian

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
—Desmond Tutu

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. -Studs Terkel

If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition — the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth. -Michelle Obama

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves … But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom. -William James

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle’s Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. No wonder it costs so much. -Sarah Vowell

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -James Thurber

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Naguib Mahfouz

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. -Harriet Lerner

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix