Good thing, bad thing, who knows.
JAY SHETTYThe more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.
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So people who come to this place, stay here for a while, and then continue their journey. Sounds like a hotel to me.
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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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Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
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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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All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
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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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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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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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Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you—a hobby, a charity, a political cause.
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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
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A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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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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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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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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We say things to ourselves that we would never say to people we love
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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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Our search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.
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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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