A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.
It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.
There’s no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.
The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it – and those along your journey – warmly, kindly and mindfully.
I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate – just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be invited to it and reminded of it.
If you must walk in someone’s shadow make sure it’s your own.
Don’t waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there’s a perfectly good one within and right in front of you.
Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed – personally and professionally. Even the so-called ‘solo star’ has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.
Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed – tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift. It’s now – not tomorrow – where happiness and fulfilment live... awaiting your discovery. It’s all this that will make each extra day that may arrive extra special and rich.
During my life journey I’ve discovered an interesting thing; once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.
Inspiration may come from many places but motivation – the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive – that must come from you from within.
A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind – for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything – void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender – and so on – these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story – for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things.” – R. Ogunlaru.
All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding.
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
Authenticity is hard to fake.
It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love.
If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first – and throughout – examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.
Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back’s against the wall.