The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.
JAY SHETTYYour dharma has to fill a need in the world
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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I 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.
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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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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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Treat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you—a hobby, a charity, a political cause.
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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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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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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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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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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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Our search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
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We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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