The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present.
RASHEED OGUNLARUFinding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow
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Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
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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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While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
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Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don’t limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility.
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My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
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Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
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People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests
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Until you understand your customers – deeply and genuinely – you cannot truly serve them.
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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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You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.
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The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides – only the heart truly binds.
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You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
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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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Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.
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Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart.
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Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
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It’s not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that
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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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Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
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If four of you are playing hide and seek you’ll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you’re looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.
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In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
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Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
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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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On any day – in any given event – you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%
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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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We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.
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