I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.
John AssarafThere are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.
John AssarafEvery single day, you're trading your life for who you're working with and what you do.
John AssarafHumanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.
John AssarafI totally believe that I everything I choose, everything I set my dreams out to achieve I will achieve.
John AssarafIt takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.
John AssarafOur job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.
John AssarafSome things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.
John AssarafI was twenty one years old and I thought, "here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.
John AssarafThe number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't tell them one thing and do something different. Be congruent with what you would like them to be by showing them how to be that way.
John AssarafI think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.
John AssarafFirst we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.
John AssarafThere is nothing that separates us except our belief that we are separate and so everything I do that is good in the world you benefit from you benefit from and everything I do that is not good in the world you lose from, and visa versa.
John AssarafWe all need to be compassionate and know that its is a game for all of us to win, we have to be on the same page and raise our level of awareness of what's possible and the awareness of how powerful we are and how good we need to be to each other.
John AssarafI just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.
John AssarafHere's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.
John AssarafIt is all about love. It is all about caring. We are all in this game together, we are all connected. You may not be able to see it with your eyes but if you go to the Quantum Universe, some of the physics of nature, we are all connected.
John AssarafI have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.
John AssarafOne of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.
John AssarafWe can help educate the individuals who are doing the things they shouldn't be doing in my opinion by understanding that there is a way to achieve their goals and desires whether it's communication skills so they stop hitting and using their anger as oppose to their intelligence.
John AssarafThere is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.
John AssarafEvery moment allows your the opportunity to take a deep breath in and be grateful for the fact that you can take in a breath.
John AssarafOne of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.
John AssarafYou can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.
John AssarafEverything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.
John AssarafWhat happens is when you start to believe it in here your brain starts to believe it out here in our physical world so you have to understand it is a reverse of what we have been taught. "When I see it I will believe it".
John AssarafWe are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.
John AssarafIf you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.
John AssarafRacism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs of what was true of what we have to have and don't have to have so for me it is all about education.
John AssarafIf you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important.
John AssarafI think that if we look at what created us, the divine intelligence that created every one of us all He can see is that beauty and love and care so if we could just show people how spectacular they are and how much potential they have.
John AssarafHaving the Creator in my life, having the spiritual connection to the divine intelligence that created me.
John AssarafI will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.
John AssarafI don't care whether you are me or Michael Jordan, it makes no difference we are all going to feel that way but it is what we do about what we feel that isn't comfortable that separates the people who do really well verses the people who just meek out existence.
John AssarafThe most wonderful gift one human being can give to another, is in some way, to make that person's life a little bit better to live.
John AssarafDon't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.
John AssarafKeep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.
John AssarafI was putting too much stress on my body and not living a healthy life style, I wasn't taking care of myself. I was able to turn that around by having a belief in myself and trusting God and then doing what it took to get healthy again.
John AssarafChildren have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes are important because we are watching these heroes make a difference in these peoples lives and sacrificing their lives in some cases and I think it is really important to know that it is not just about us but about the community.
John AssarafYour life can not be all about stuff that you love or even like. Your life is going to be about ups and downs and that is just part of the journey.
John AssarafI think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.
John AssarafTo having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.
John AssarafThe people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.
John AssarafI don't look at myself as a hero I look at myself as just another person who's on the path. I have got a light in front of me shining and I have got other people in front of me with their light shinning for me, I have got people behind me with their light shinning for me.
John Assaraf