"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are."
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"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."
"There's nothing worse than betraying yourself."
"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."
"Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing."
"All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment."
"If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain."
"Everybody's life matters."
"Leadership is about empathy."
"The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance."
"All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown."
"Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural."
"Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough."
"Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back."
"God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God."
"I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got."
"Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings."
"So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track."
"There is no doing in the world without being first."
"If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself."