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.
RASHEED OGUNLARUYour 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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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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We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze.
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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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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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The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free.
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Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
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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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The head thinks. The heart knows.
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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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Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
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It’s not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It’s about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.
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You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
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Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within.
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Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you
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How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it.
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It’s not the world that needs to change – it’s our consciousness we must raise.
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If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you.
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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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There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.
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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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Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.
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Rest and peace should not be left until you’re deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
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Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
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Until you understand your customers – deeply and genuinely – you cannot truly serve them.
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Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on.
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