Author: Yoga With Brian

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -Carl Jung

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. -F. W. Robertson

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. -Annie Dillard

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”  – Oscar Wilde

“Before we start this first song, I want to say this: and keeping it very real, it came to me in the spirit. What came to me to say to all of you was, that anyone that hates anyone for any reason, whether it be the color of their skin or their relationship to religion or whatever, what you’re doing is blocking your blessing. You’re blocking your family’s blessing, you’re blocking the world’s blessing.”

“I hope that you will put love in your heart.  And if you love God, or Allah, or whatever religion you are, that you will take hate out of it, and the world will be so much greater. I really, really believe that. If you put love in there and took hate out, then the people who are blind will be able to see, the people who are deaf will be able to hear. We will see miracles unfold.” – Stevie Wonder

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward Everett Hale

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.  -Rumi