“All education doesn’t come in institutions. Some education comes through experience and you can be anointed to be something, but haven’t earned the experience to be established on the level that you’re in…” #BishopJakes…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *DP, LS, PB, PW*

The Warm-Up: 

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? | Proving nature’s law is wrong | it learned how to walk with out having feet. | Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, | it learned to breathe fresh air. | Long live the rose that grew from concrete | when no one else even cared.” ~Tupac ft. Nikki Giovanni, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

The Core: 

“Truth is the ultimate currency.” ~Kpaxs

“You know how to fight. Now learn to rest.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“The insanity of Theranos, speed of Lehman and scale of Enron.” ~Matt Ballensweig

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are.” ~Mark Nepo

“Your perspective will become your prison or your passport. Choose wisely.” ~Steven Furtick

“Currently existing somewhere in between: patient enough to wait for what’s mine but ready to harvest fruit from the seeds I’ve planted.” ~Billy Chapata

“You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to. Just because someone has an issue with you doesn’t mean you need to have one too.” ~Kpaxs

“Don’t worry about remembering. Just try to understand important points. Write, ruminate, pace, do what it takes to understand. Don’t memorize.” ~Naval Ravikant

“The answer is practice. Instant gratification culture makes us think there’s always a trick for getting results immediately. Focus, money, muscle, or any other desirable trait. Practice. For 10 years.” ~Dan Koe

“You become unstoppable when you keep healing, loving and re-parenting your inner wounded child, and unlearning your own toxic patterns to break the cycle of passing on trauma and pain.” ~@MindTendencies2

“When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.” ~Mark Nepo

“Purpose allows someone to focus on long term by not being shaken by the pain of present. Those with trauma also find different ways to escape their pain of present as a coping mechanism. Often combination of these creates most purposeful people and most ambitious outcomes.” ~Kunal Shah

“Most decisions aren’t made on a spreadsheet, where you just add up the numbers and a rational answer pops out. There’s a human element that’s hard to quantify, hard to explain, and can seem totally detached from the original goal, yet carries more influence than anything else.” ~Morgan Housel, A Few Good Stories

“One of the common trappings of success is overproducing. Companies make money and rapidly expand their product line. Authors become popular and churn out books at a faster clip. Scale can empower, but it can also dilute. Something is lost when quantity is valued over quality. You have to maintain your standards even when all the forces around you seem to be calling for growth. Push back against more, more, more and remain committed to better, better, better.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1

Last Set:

“Experience is no small thing…When your anointing is powerful, your apprenticeship will be painful…Y’all y’all didn’t hear what I’m saying. When your anointing is powerful – your apprenticeship will be painful because God won’t give that kind of power and not balance it with that kind of pain. The greater the pain, the greater the power. If you’re going to have the power, you got to be prepared to deal with the pain. The pain is a part of the power and in fact you will understand who you are by who hates you. David is hated by a king because he is a King! You’re going to have pain that’s commensurate not to your situation but to your identity!” ~Bishop T.D. Jakes, The Crises of Next

Food For Thought:

“Bono is often teased about his activism—I’m going to save the world, and I don’t care how many magazine covers I have to be on to do it. But this work has been a useful unfolding of his faith. ‘Your faith is an action,’ he tells me. Preach the Gospel, but only use words if absolutely necessary. His activism has been the way he can take the fame life gave him and turn it into a useful currency. ‘While I hope God is with us in our mansions on the hill or holiday homes by the sea,’ he writes, ‘I know God is with the poorest and most vulnerable.’” ~David Brooks, The Too-Muchness of Bono

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