Author: Yoga With Brian

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill

Under history, memory and 
forgetting. 

Under memory and forgetting, 
life.

-Paul Ricoeur

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. -Spanish proverb

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. -Rumi

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -H.L. Mencken

…think more about what (you’ll) leave behind.  -James Turrell

A Benediction by a Negro preacher

Dear God:
We ain’t what we orta be
We ain’t what we’re gonna be
We ain’t what we wanta be
But thank God
We ain’t what we wuz

-from Eleanor Roosevelt’s purse on the day of her death