Monks 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 SHETTYWhen you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.
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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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Treat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.
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Be here now.
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You are who you are when no one is watching.
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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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When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.
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If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else
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Good thing, bad thing, who knows.
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The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.
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We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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Strengthened my resolve.
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Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
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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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Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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Live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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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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Everything you do is your spiritual life.
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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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When you try to live your most authentic life, some of your relationships will be put in jeopardy. Losing them is a risk worth bearing; finding a way to keep them in your life is a challenge worth taking on.
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We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
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I can use my awareness of my fear as a tool to help me make decisions that are truly in line with my values and purpose.
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