A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
JAY SHETTYIf you follow your bliss, he said, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else
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Every night when I’m falling asleep, I say to myself, I am relaxed, energized, and focused. I am calm, enthusiastic, and productive.
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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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Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
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You are not your success or your failure.
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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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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Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you—a hobby, a charity, a political cause.
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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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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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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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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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Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
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Everything you do is your spiritual life.
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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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Revenge is the mode of ignorancev-vit’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.
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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.
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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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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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Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
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Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.
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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life
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Your passion becomes a purpose when you use it to serve others.
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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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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
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Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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