To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.
JAY SHETTYTo walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.
JAY SHETTYYou can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
JAY SHETTYMost of our communication is nonverbal.
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 SHETTYWhen someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.
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 SHETTYHigher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
JAY SHETTYYesterday 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.
JAY SHETTYDon’t judge the moment.
JAY SHETTYPride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.
JAY SHETTYThey are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego cage of I, me, and mine
JAY SHETTYI am happy about who I am becoming. I am open to all opportunities and possibilities. I am worthy of real love. I am ready to serve with all I have.
JAY SHETTYA layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
JAY SHETTYWe say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
JAY SHETTYCancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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
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