When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.
JAY SHETTYLife’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.
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A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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You are who you are when no one is watching.
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Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.
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But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.
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Good thing, bad thing, who knows.
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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
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Find me someone who has gone to the darkest parts of their own character where they were so close to their own self-destruction and found a way to get up and out of it, and I will bow on my knees to you. You’re my teacher.
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Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change
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No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.
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Your passion becomes a purpose when you use it to serve others.
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Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.
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The arrogant ego desires respect, whereas the humble worker inspires respect.
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