When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.
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.
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We can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.
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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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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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All things are temporary and that we can’t truly own or control anything.
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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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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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It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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You are who you are when no one is watching.
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A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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Negativity is a trait, not someone’s identity.
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Strengthened my resolve.
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To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.
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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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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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