You talk about silence a lot on your Instagram page. Can you speak to the importance of silence and how it helped you when you were building out the project for the God Box?
Silence has saved my whole entire life. It is in my belief that evil is just a bunch of noise and distractions, and silence is Godly. It’s hard for us to even hear God because our spirit is bombarded with telephones and destructive information. We’ve got a million channels, the Internet, all this information, and if you look at any religion, if people wanted to get, for the most part, close to God, what are the three things they need? First of all they got somewhere silent. Then when they fasted, they got by themselves, they fasted, they prayed, and they shut the hell up. And they got still. And what’s crazy is, one of my friends told me something. He said everybody always talk about Jesus, but you never do the stuff Jesus did. If you fasted for 40 days and 40 nights you would probably have clarity about your life, too. You might be able to walk on water!
What would you say to your 25-year-old self?
Nothing. Because if I said something to the 25-year-old self, I wouldn’t be who I am now. People get pain and mistakes wrong. Pain and mistakes are what help you grow. When you do stuff right the first time, you don’t know how you did it. It is the mistakes that make us better people.
I also think it is very important for us to love ourselves. And that’s one of the reasons why, I can’t say that I don’t get down and the things that people say about me don’t upset me at all, but I love me. And people say that’s arrogant, but it’s not; I like me. I’m cleaning me up on the inside. I love meditating. Most people hate meditating because they don’t love themselves—they’re not comfortable with their own self. So they’re thinking about the wrong shit. Meditation allows me to face my fears, face who I am on the inside. God is just waiting on you. God is waiting on you in you.
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