Andrew Daniel > Quotes

“Om is said to be a four-syllable word in Sanskrit, originally as AUM. A, the waking state. U, the dream state. M, the unconscious state. And the fourth, the silence that surrounds it—wherefrom everything arises and whereto everything inevitably returns.

It is the silence that surrounds om that contains everything. It is the silence in your own life that contains and gives birth to everything you have, and everything you will ever need.

It is this same silence we avoid, overlook, and disregard as nothing. The white space of life we abhor. We fill our lives with noise, drama, screens, people, and “stuff” to avoid the void that reminds us of our truth—that beyond flesh that once was not, and will inescapably become not, we are eternal.”
― Drew Gerald

“You only struggle because you're ready to grow but aren't willing to let go.”
― Drew Gerald

“Surrender is not submission; it is a letting go not a giving in.”
― Drew Gerald

“Inertness is the universal sign of death. Nothing can exist without movement.”
― Drew Gerald

“There's a difference between intellect and intelligence. Noise propagates the former, silence the later. Intellect is inherited, intelligence is inherent.”
― Drew Gerald

“Relationships aren't two incomplete halves coming together to make a whole. Rather, it's two complete wholes coming together to create something greater than their sum.”
― Drew Gerald

“Deviation from perfection is the beauty of human experience.”
― Drew Gerald

“Love is simultaneously the message, medium, method, meaning, and messenger—it is both the origin and destination.”
― Drew Gerald

“Everything is sex, but sex isn't everything.”
― Drew Gerald

“In the stillness, everything happens. In the silence, everything is said.”
― Drew Gerald

“It's not what we've done or what we can do, but for who we are that we wish to be loved for.”
― Drew Gerald

“Most people think I'm crazy—I'm in a cult called happiness, I practice the religion of kindness, I'm a quack in the pseudoscience of love, I work in the field of unlimited possibilities, my diet is that of knowledge, my orientation is irrelevant, my purpose is growth, my entitlement is freedom, my motivation is joy, my evidence is my success, and my race is humankind—I still haven't figured out the crazy part.”
― Drew Gerald

“The spiritual practice isn't about rejecting darkness—it's realizing that both the light and dark are love.”
― Drew Gerald

“Look outside and you will see yourself. Look inside and you will find yourself.”
― Drew Gerald

“Absolute freedom requires absolute responsibility.”
― Drew Gerald

“When the world is in a rage, find peace. When the world is lynching, show forgiveness. When it is fueled by hatred, move with compassion. When it criticizes, empathize. When the world insists on its horrors, atrocities, and fears, we must not comply—but defiantly lean into that darkness and find beauty, love, and truth.”
― Drew Gerald

“Your humanity is your divinity”
― Drew Gerald

“The most fulfilling love life comes from a love of life and a life of love.”
― Drew Gerald

“When you're ready, nothing can stop you. If something's stopping you, you're not ready.”
― Drew Gerald

“Every new encounter is a chance for love to meet itself again.”
― Drew Gerald

“Our dreams require us to betray who we "should" be for who we are to become.”
― Drew Gerald

“The Truth dies when righteous men no longer have the courage to speak it.”
― Drew Gerald

“Everything serves—even what doesn't.”
― Drew Gerald