Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
JAY SHETTYMonks 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.
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
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Don’t judge the moment.
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You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
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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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Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.
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If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
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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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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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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
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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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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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But when we look for the good in others, we start to see the best in ourselves too.
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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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