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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.

Jay Shetty

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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Aspiration Death Dreams Life Live Lose Ourselves Purpose Service Short
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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Break Desire Forever Freedom Myself Selfish
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
Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
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Anxiety Depression Fulfillment Happiness Suffering Value
When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
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Mindset Present 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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Location 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.
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Easy Energy Location Memory Natural Space Time Yourself
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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Deep Gift Limitation Myself People Responsibility Space Thinking
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
Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.
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Break Ignorance Mode Revenge Yourself
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
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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Acceptance Feeling Goodness Gratitude Live Nature Ourselves Temporary Time
I can use my awareness of my fear as a tool to help me make decisions that are truly in line with my values and purpose.
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Decision Fear Help Ourselves Purpose Tools True Value
Strengthened my resolve.
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Myself Strength
Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.
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Attachment Deep Greatness Reality Strength Wisdom 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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Attention Boredom Complaint Freedom Memories Mindset People Poor Problem Understand

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