A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
JAY SHETTYA layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
JAY SHETTYThey are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego cage of I, me, and mine
JAY SHETTYYou don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
JAY SHETTYOur values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
JAY SHETTYPride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
JAY SHETTYSo people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.
JAY SHETTYYour dharma has to fill a need in the world
JAY SHETTYWhen the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change
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 SHETTYBecause 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.
JAY SHETTYA monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
JAY SHETTYIf you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
JAY SHETTYWe are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
JAY SHETTYWhen we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.
JAY SHETTYYou are who you are when no one is watching.
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 SHETTY