Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
RUSSELL SIMMONSMeditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
RUSSELL SIMMONSWhen you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThere’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
RUSSELL SIMMONSA large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
RUSSELL SIMMONSIf you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
RUSSELL SIMMONSWell, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
RUSSELL SIMMONSMistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
RUSSELL SIMMONSI kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
RUSSELL SIMMONSAnd that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
RUSSELL SIMMONSGive what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThere are no failures, only quitters.
RUSSELL SIMMONSIt’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONSAnd the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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