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
JAY SHETTYTracking 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
JAY SHETTYToo often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.
JAY SHETTYWhen you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
JAY SHETTYWe can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.
JAY SHETTYFear makes us fiction writers.
JAY SHETTYIf you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
JAY SHETTYOur values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
JAY SHETTYFind 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.
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
JAY SHETTYNo 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.
JAY SHETTYWhen 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 SHETTYGood thing, bad thing, who knows.
JAY SHETTYAll things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
JAY SHETTYCriticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
JAY SHETTYTreat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.
JAY SHETTYNever trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance.
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