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The Last Hustle - Kenny Johnson
"I had to find a power that would not only get me through my current sentence, but would free me from prison forever."
The Last Hustle is the story of Kenny's life as a criminal and his transformation in prison after his meeting with Gangaji in 1994.
For thirty-one years Kenny Johnson's most fervent desire was to hear his name 'ringing in the streets' as a hustler, thief, and pimp. Running parallel with that desire was a persistent seed of spiritual longing that would not leave him alone.
Kenny was arrested thirty-seven times and spent much of his life in prison, or on the run. Each time behind bars sent him into a deep and profound despair. Eventually his desire for lasting freedom would drive him to find a power that could not only get him through his final sentence, but free him from prison forever. The Last Hustle, written in the first person, is the story of Kenny's life as a criminal and his transformation in prison.
"The Last Hustle" A book chronicling his years as a young man trying to find his way in a world that had very few signposts guiding him. Prison was his destination for life unless a miracle happened. It did in the form of his teacher, guide, and spiritual advisor Antoinette Varner. Also known affectionately as Gangaji. The book is raw, gritty, and soft and intimate. A must read. for all who are seeking and wanting to know what a journey of a spiritual llife is like.
All any young person wants is for someone, any one, to see value and worth in them.
to take the time to talk and listen to them, to inspire and teach them.
Kenny attitude was, Buy yourself out of pain, Hustle out of suffering, Steal out of loneliness.
Fueled by his anger -addiction.
"real freedom comes from within. changing focus, changes lives."
"Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being. Gangaji
The Last Hustle - Kenny Johnson
"I had to find a power that would not only get me through my current sentence, but would free me from prison forever."
The Last Hustle is the story of Kenny's life as a criminal and his transformation in prison after his meeting with Gangaji in 1994.
For thirty-one years Kenny Johnson's most fervent desire was to hear his name 'ringing in the streets' as a hustler, thief, and pimp. Running parallel with that desire was a persistent seed of spiritual longing that would not leave him alone.
Kenny was arrested thirty-seven times and spent much of his life in prison, or on the run. Each time behind bars sent him into a deep and profound despair. Eventually his desire for lasting freedom would drive him to find a power that could not only get him through his final sentence, but free him from prison forever. The Last Hustle, written in the first person, is the story of Kenny's life as a criminal and his transformation in prison.
"The Last Hustle" A book chronicling his years as a young man trying to find his way in a world that had very few signposts guiding him. Prison was his destination for life unless a miracle happened. It did in the form of his teacher, guide, and spiritual advisor Antoinette Varner. Also known affectionately as Gangaji. The book is raw, gritty, and soft and intimate. A must read. for all who are seeking and wanting to know what a journey of a spiritual llife is like.
All any young person wants is for someone, any one, to see value and worth in them.
to take the time to talk and listen to them, to inspire and teach them.
Kenny attitude was, Buy yourself out of pain, Hustle out of suffering, Steal out of loneliness.
Fueled by his anger -addiction.
"real freedom comes from within. changing focus, changes lives."
"Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being. Gangaji
