Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We spend so much time trying to change others – in part – because we do not deeply believe in and embrace ourselves as we already are. And so more often than not we do not learn to trust and utilize our gifts and power whole-heartedly enough to pursue and fulfill our own passions, purpose and possibilities.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Care about people, yes. Care about how people feel, yeah. Care about what people think, beware.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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 reminded of it and invited to it and reminded of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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...

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru