If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else
JAY SHETTYWhen you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life
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Life’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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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.
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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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A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
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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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Saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.
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Location has energy; time has memory. If you do something at the same time every day, it becomes easier and natural. If you do something in the same space every day, it becomes easier and natural.
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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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Our search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
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Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance.
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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.
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All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
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Tracking my fear of exam results and the other branch fears that appeared led me to the root: fearing I couldn’t make my parents happy
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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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Be here now.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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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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Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
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Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego cage of I, me, and mine
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You are who you are when no one is watching.
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We 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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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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