You are not your success or your failure.
JAY SHETTYYou are not your success or your failure.
JAY SHETTYWe say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
JAY SHETTYA monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
JAY SHETTYYour passion becomes a purpose when you use it to serve others.
JAY SHETTYOur search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
JAY SHETTYThe arrogant ego desires respect, whereas the humble worker inspires respect.
JAY SHETTYBut when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.
JAY SHETTYWe think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.
JAY SHETTYWe can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.
JAY SHETTYBe here now.
JAY SHETTYHigher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
JAY SHETTYMonks understand that routine frees your mind, but the biggest threat to that freedom is monotony. People complain about their poor memories, but I’ve heard it said that we don’t have a retention problem, we have an attention problem.
JAY SHETTYCancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
JAY SHETTYThe more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.
JAY SHETTYWe are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
JAY SHETTYWe don’t have to do everything, that we can’t do everything, that what I can’t do is someone else’s gift and responsibility. My limitations make space for the gifts of other people
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