Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

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.

Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures

Your life - and all lives - will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

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.

Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.

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.

A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.

It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded

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

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.

During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it.

All the love, learning and opportunities that you seek come from being open to life not being closed throughout it.

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.

You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.

Your consistency says a lot about your commitment.

Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.

Success is secondary to impact. Success is a list of what you win, gain and attain - it may pass it may remain. Impact is the test; the hearts, minds and lives you touch, enhance and forever change...

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.

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain you...and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry - or with with heart, head or belly ache - and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.

You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.

When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

All selling should spring from service

Shifting perspective(s) and being proactive are essential to your our life paths, progress and possibilities: "Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.

When everyone is hungry and waiting – when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking - it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than getting everyone involved in deciding on the recipe.