A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
JAY SHETTYA monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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.
JAY SHETTYA layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
JAY SHETTYBeing present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
JAY SHETTYFind 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.
JAY SHETTYLocation has energy; time has memory. If you do something at the same time every day, it becomes easier and natural. If you do something in the same space every day, it becomes easier and natural.
JAY SHETTYNever trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance.
JAY SHETTYAll things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
JAY SHETTYWhat’s on your news feed is feeding your mind.
JAY SHETTYNo 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.
JAY SHETTYBecause 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.
JAY SHETTYSo people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.
JAY SHETTYYou are not your success or your failure.
JAY SHETTYCriticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.
JAY SHETTYStrengthened my resolve.
JAY SHETTYTreat yourself with the same love and respect you want to show to others.
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