The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
RUSSELL SIMMONSHollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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