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
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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When you try to live your most authentic life, some of your relationships will be put in jeopardy. Losing them is a risk worth bearing; finding a way to keep them in your life is a challenge worth taking on.
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Everything you do is your spiritual life.
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Be here now.
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Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.
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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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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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Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you—a hobby, a charity, a political cause.
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I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.
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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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To walk down the same old path and find a new stone is to open your mind.
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You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.
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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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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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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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Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
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Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
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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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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life
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Your dharma has to fill a need in the world
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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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Good thing, bad thing, who knows.
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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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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.
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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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When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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