We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.
RASHEED OGUNLARULive your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
More Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes
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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
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Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.
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Don’t be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success.
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While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won’t find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
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Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.
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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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Sooner or later you’ll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be – become who you are.
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In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
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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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Finding 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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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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The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
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The best way to get something good out of what you’re doing is to put something good into it.
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The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.
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If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else.
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Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It’s your heart that will really keep you on tack… and nourished along the way.
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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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Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
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By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
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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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Life is the best and only timekeeper.
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A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.
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First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice
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Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic.
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Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
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