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Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.
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Different Oneself Tree
The head thinks. The heart knows.
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Head Heart Thinking
If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else.
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Be Yourself Oneself People Shadow
Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you
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Compassionate Genuine Interest Kindness Yourself
I’ve no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I’d rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
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Choice Funny Interest Myself Need Thinking
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
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Destination Expression Love Question Service Situation Yourself
There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose – if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.
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Different Embrace Fight Life Oneself Yourself
There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.
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Life Material Oneself Philosophy Question Spiritual
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It’s the latter who really enrich the world we live in
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Better Greatness Help Rich World
The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
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Fingers Gratitude Happiness Lose Moments Yourself
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do.
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Compassionate Destination Foundation Love Pursuit Yourself
You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
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Advice Flow Water Yourself
If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you.
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Life Listening Quiet Secret Yourself
Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.
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Flow Life Problem Solution Space Time
Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear but because of your love.
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Hold On Love World Yourself
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
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Contribution Evolution Language Ourselves Understand

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