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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.

Jay Shetty

Our search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
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Feeling Ourselves Philosophy Search Thinking
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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Appearance Fear Happiness Myself Parents Result Root
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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Happiness Love Myself Open Opportunity Reality Serve Worth
Sometimes we can trace our fears through the actions we take, and sometimes it’s the actions we’re reluctant to take
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Action Deep Fear Ourselves Wisdom
Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.
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Damage Destruction Fall Philosophy Pride Soul
We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. And to the rest of the universe, atomically.
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Connection Each Other Earth Science Universe
A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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Deep Detachment Family Home Mindset Ourselves Practice Wisdom
Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
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Destroy Knowledge Pride Strength Wealth
You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
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Character Skill Yourself
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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Appearance Enlightenment Freedom Growth Transformation Yourself
You are not your success or your failure.
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Failure Identity Success Yourself
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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Action Feeling Freedom Need Reality Remember Talk Willing
When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are.
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Appearance End Life Pretend True Worst
Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
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Life Live Present Rich True
Strengthened my resolve.
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Myself Strength
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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Born Breathe Change Country Death Family Friendship Live Moments Stay Yourself

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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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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