A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
JAY SHETTYOur search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
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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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When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change
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If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
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You are who you are when no one is watching.
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Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
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Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.
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When 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.
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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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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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