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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Carlos Santana

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
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Border Boundary Future Heart Peace Tolerance
There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Feeling Planet
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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Cry Honesty Laughter Life Music Myself People Spiritual
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Growth Life Worst Yourself
There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
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Difference Greatness Reward Work World
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Carry Healing Heart Moments Yourself
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Drop Illusion Luggage
A lot of people said to me, ‘Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!’
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Enough Guitar People Play
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.
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Father Listening Music Myself Pass Time
You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you’ve been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: ‘Write this down’
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Candle Meditation Voice Writing Yourself
You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.
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Behavior Carry Correct Different God Light Mindset Yourself
I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Gratitude Myself Possible Ready
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Better Choice Depression Patient Service
I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Demon Myself Weakness
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.
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Challenge History Move Musician Spiritual
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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Instrument Music Myself Realization Time
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
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Man Miracle Music Note Time
Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
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Chord Disappear Gravity Note Surrender Yourself
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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People Shame Yourself
Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
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Bar Compliment Life Music Religion Yourself
I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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Dimension Feeling Harmony Healing Love Myself Present Wisdom
I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.
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Day Music Myself Thinking
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
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Appearance Beyond Heart Yourself
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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Concept Emotion Weave
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
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Divine Education Enlightenment Manner Peace Reality
There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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Connection Heart Language Music
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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Food Garden Small Smell Spiritual

I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

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