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I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.

Russell Simmons

Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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Breath Decision Remember
And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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Increase People Positive Vibrations
When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Breathing Reality Yoga
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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Kids Running Want
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.
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Grace Mind Thinking
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
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Community Hurt Understanding
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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Giving Happiness Keys
People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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People Saying Thinking
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking

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