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Eugene Khoza

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452 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

So we keep meeting these soul families, a group of five individuals that will make a great impact in your life as you go along. So even if it's the first stage of your life, there'll be five that you can mention that matter. As an adolescent, there'll be five that matter. In your career, there'll be five that matter. Those are soul groups.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

So we keep meeting these soul families, a group of five individuals that will make a great impact in your life as you go along. So even if it's the first stage of your life, there'll be five that you can mention that matter. As an adolescent, there'll be five that matter. In your career, there'll be five that matter. Those are soul groups.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

So those are people just come in into your life and they exist purely for your assistance. They're here to push you. They're here to teach you. Even heartbreak is a lesson. Not all good time. That's why I was asking you in the beginning, why do you think pain features so much in the Bible? It's because heartbreak is an accelerant. Hurt and pain and loss is an accelerant to feeling something.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

So those are people just come in into your life and they exist purely for your assistance. They're here to push you. They're here to teach you. Even heartbreak is a lesson. Not all good time. That's why I was asking you in the beginning, why do you think pain features so much in the Bible? It's because heartbreak is an accelerant. Hurt and pain and loss is an accelerant to feeling something.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

You can be comfortable all your life and not feel anything else. But as soon as you feel loss and pain, you will remember that you also had a good time. So that's what pain and suffering is for. But suffering is voluntary. So suffering, you choose it and use it as a medication. You take it in doses so that you can remember how good you have it.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

You can be comfortable all your life and not feel anything else. But as soon as you feel loss and pain, you will remember that you also had a good time. So that's what pain and suffering is for. But suffering is voluntary. So suffering, you choose it and use it as a medication. You take it in doses so that you can remember how good you have it.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

Someone in a hospital right now who has no chance of leaving doesn't have this privilege that you and I have to walk downstairs, to walk around, get in the car, press buttons. And that's all they want at this moment. But they've had it maybe for 50 years and never cared for it. But the suffering accelerated the memory of the good times that they had.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

Someone in a hospital right now who has no chance of leaving doesn't have this privilege that you and I have to walk downstairs, to walk around, get in the car, press buttons. And that's all they want at this moment. But they've had it maybe for 50 years and never cared for it. But the suffering accelerated the memory of the good times that they had.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

So if you think about life like that, you can walk around the mall and see hundreds of people. But if you think about how many people you've called and sat with and chatted with, in most cases, they won't exceed number five. It's that group of people that you can rely on and trust and they always accelerate you to go further. And those are the people that will bring heartache.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

So if you think about life like that, you can walk around the mall and see hundreds of people. But if you think about how many people you've called and sat with and chatted with, in most cases, they won't exceed number five. It's that group of people that you can rely on and trust and they always accelerate you to go further. And those are the people that will bring heartache.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

They'll bring laughter. They'll bring lessons. They'll bring admiration and adoration at the same time because you need those two to balance. As much as you admire someone, someone needs to adore you. That's when the base romantic relationships work. When there's a khutman in the group, someone gets admired and someone adores the other person.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

They'll bring laughter. They'll bring lessons. They'll bring admiration and adoration at the same time because you need those two to balance. As much as you admire someone, someone needs to adore you. That's when the base romantic relationships work. When there's a khutman in the group, someone gets admired and someone adores the other person.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

They adore the fact that they admire them and they admire them for the fact that they adored them. So that's how things work. This balance that we're always seeking and just knowing that once you start feeling something, then something is happening. Growth is pain. Kids go through that all the time. Oh, my elbow. Oh, my back. Because they're growing.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

They adore the fact that they admire them and they admire them for the fact that they adored them. So that's how things work. This balance that we're always seeking and just knowing that once you start feeling something, then something is happening. Growth is pain. Kids go through that all the time. Oh, my elbow. Oh, my back. Because they're growing.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

Then they go and rest and everything feels better again. But as adults, what do we do? We just go and try to make pain not exist because we feel like when we're feeling pain, we failed. And when you're feeling pain, you're growing. When you're tired, like we walked the other time and we felt it, yeah, then we did something.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

Then they go and rest and everything feels better again. But as adults, what do we do? We just go and try to make pain not exist because we feel like when we're feeling pain, we failed. And when you're feeling pain, you're growing. When you're tired, like we walked the other time and we felt it, yeah, then we did something.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

Because this thing is happening.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

Because this thing is happening.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

But you're not suffering. Yes. So animals know this better than anyone. So they migrate because they know that if they stay here, they're going to suffer. And that's optional. So they walk towards the pain so they can avoid the suffering. So that's what the thing is. So it's an accelerant in that way that we need to walk towards it. But if you stay, you suffer.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Meet Eugene Khoza – One of My Favorite People

But you're not suffering. Yes. So animals know this better than anyone. So they migrate because they know that if they stay here, they're going to suffer. And that's optional. So they walk towards the pain so they can avoid the suffering. So that's what the thing is. So it's an accelerant in that way that we need to walk towards it. But if you stay, you suffer.