I never listened to country music growing up.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.
I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.
I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
[last lines] [spoiler] Alexander Kerner: [voiceover] My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, b...
Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.
...we can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.
What is enlightenment? In the Korean tradition of Tao, it is known a Mu-Ah (Mu means “No” or “Nothing” and Ah means “Me”). It is no-me-ness, or egoless-ness. It means realizing the true, unchanging nature of the person you happen to be.
The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.
The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.
Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you ...