Reboot Podcast Episode #63 – Remember Who You Are – with Adi Mashiach

Memorable Quotes: 

“I don’t wanna be the glaze anymore. I don’t want anybody else to be a glaze for me. I want to help others make exquisite glaze but not by going into the fire.” – Adi Mashiach

“It’s not easy moving to a new country and breaking into a new circle.” – Adi Mashiach

“People try to fit you into boxes. I don’t know whether I should fit myself into a box so I will be understood.” – Adi Mashiach

“… behind everything is a wish for you to belong and to love the stranger who’s loved you all your life.” – Jerry Colonna

“It took me a lot of years to recognize that there is a stranger and letting that stranger love you, and you love that stranger back.” – Adi Mashiach

“You turned off parts of you, the powerful parts of you, though that’s what makes you unique in order to fit. And, you’re not being true to yourself.” – Adi Mashiach

“In doing that, you access a power of identity that is deeper than what our intellect has driven us. This is the curse of the high achievers.” – Jerry Colonna

“You’re trying to dodge that process and you don’t wanna face who is under that peel. And you will never be true to yourself, and you’ll never be happy and you’ll never feel the way you want to feel at peace.” – Adi Mashiach

“Know to put your ego next to you, not in front of you, not behind you. Don’t say you don’t have it. Put it next to you. It deserves its place, but it shouldn’t be in the driver’s seat.” – Adi Mashiach

“I just met myself, and I don’t want to lose that.” – Adi Mashiach

“How do I communicate who I am, my difference, my otherness? How do I make others see this as an advantage enough for them to say, “You know, I’m gonna back this guy?”” – Adi Mashiach

“Whose life do you need to save, but, but if not that little boy that’s a part of you? That little boy is the source of your creativity, your generosity, your frustration, your joy, your capacity to love. It is not the prodigious intellect, no matter how fucking smart you are. It’s that little boy.” – Jerry Colonna

“I’m not gonna lie and say that I’m always occupying my true self. I struggle with that. It’s a daily practice.” – Jerry Colonna

“What if our relationships weren’t merely about this sort of external thing? What if we came together in relationships to help each other grow, to help each other through that passage?” – Jerry Colonna

“Thank you for showing me myself and reminding me of who I forgot that I was.” – Adi Mashiach