Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational

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

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.

Enlightenment is not about attaining a 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.

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

There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually

The stiller you are the calmer life is.

There is no well being without inner peace.

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind

There is nothing you lack and all you will find

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

One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.

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

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

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

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

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

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.

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

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.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

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

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

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

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.

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

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

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

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?

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Authenticity is hard to fake

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

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

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

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

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.