Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.
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.
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We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.
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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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Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance.
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Find 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.
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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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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.
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You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
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Strengthened my resolve.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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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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They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego cage of I, me, and mine
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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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You are not your success or your failure.
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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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