
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

“This is going to be the best day of my life.”
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Real philanthropy isn’t about pushing money—it’s about moving light, and it doesn’t matter how many zeros you have to the right in your bank account as long as you have a 1 on the left.
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
My philosophy is that being conscious means knowing that you are a creator. Yes, there’s the supreme creator, but he gave you free will so that you can be the creator of the movie that is your life. Be that creator—work with what you are given.
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
The mind is a creature of labeling and encapsulating and filing things into categories. But this was music that was begging the soul to tell the mind to shut the hell up, turn up the volume, and not worry about what to call anything.
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Music is the amalgamation of sound and intention and emotion and wisdom.
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
if you want to heal something, you can’t do it in the dark. You have to bring it into the light.
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Love is the breath that flows through us all and connects us. Devotion is the commitment to living with spiritual priorities,
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
But we hippies had a saying: “You can’t find yourself till you lose yourself.” You have to let go of everything that you’ve been taught and find a way of being happy with your own existence and bless all your imperfections. It’s a way of seeing your own ego, pulling all the levers and controlling your behavior, like some Wizard of Oz behind a scree
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we are at our best when we get out of our own way. People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.