HIGHLIGHTS:

“It was a gorgeous day, and I felt that sense of what I longed for…”

“…. acknowledging the freedom you have to choose your next move.”

“Two hours later, are you going to regret the things you did because you were stressed, OR are you going to be proud of your Self for being your Self - your true Self, without all of that stress? I think the only advantage of stress is that it is a signal for us; your body telling you ‘YO YOU’RE IN DANGER!’ So you got to breathe, and then find your way out of that danger.”

“We’ve been training our bodies, and our minds; our Beings, for the past - how many years of life we’ve been living - to be in a state of hyper-stress, and that is our default. That is something we automatically fall into.”

“Even when I wasn’t doing anything, when I was FINALLY granted rest from all these things, I was like, ‘NO, this means I need to do more!’ And then I did more, and then I did too much… and then BOOM, I burnt out. (Breathe) And only when I burnt out, and I was able to knock things off my plate, did I realize… that when I was walking to campus, I was walking through a park. And this whole time I did not realize how beautiful these trees are!”

“We’re really good at human-doing, and we’ve all forgotten the human-BEING. It’s turned into this compulsive mania on a society-wide level; it’s just compulsive; hyper. It’s ‘I always need to be doing something, and if there’s a breath in between the doing, then that’s awful.’”

“HOW LUCKY ARE WE THAT WE GET TO HIT ROCK BOTTOM… on which we get to experience that openness at such a young age.”

“I did that to other people. When I was upset, I hurt others, and it’s really hard to accept that, and to let go of it.”

“Are you just going to keep thinking about what happened, or are you going to look for another opportunity similar to it, so that you can approach it better with this newfound learning?”

“Every single moment - this moment, this moment, and this moment. Every single moment that arises is a totally fresh moment, TOTALLY.”

“Back in elementary school… like when I look back at all the shit I was doing, I’m like ‘WHY, MAN??!’ (Laugh), but in that moment, it felt like the right thing to do; to open up MSN and nudge that girl I was totally feeling, and message her up. But in hindsight I’m like ‘WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING???!!’ (Laugh)”

“If you’re frustrated on the bus - everyone else is frustrated! But imagine if you could be that person that’s just chill; wouldn’t you want to be that person? I’m pretty sure no one likes being frustrated.. but how is it that people still are?”

INSPIRED by SHAKESPEARE: “Things are not good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“When your stomach is turning, and you can’t eat - because you’re TOO stressed - you like that shit??”

“It’s this addictive thing: the act of wanting; of not being satisfied with who we already are.”

“We have so many blessings, that sometimes it’s hard to see them all individually.”

Beat prod. By RKS
Vocals by Jeffrey Carta

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