Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.
JAY SHETTYNever trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance.
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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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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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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Because 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.
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We can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.
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Remember, 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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Treat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.
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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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Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
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You are not your success or your failure.
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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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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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No matter how much we grow, we are never free of daily chores and routines, but to be enlightened is to embrace them. The outside may look the same, but inside you are transformed.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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