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 SHETTYWe can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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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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You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
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Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
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Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
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You are not your success or your failure.
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Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
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Most of our communication is nonverbal.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
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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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If you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else
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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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A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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