You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.
JAY SHETTYWhen you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.
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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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Everything you do is your spiritual life.
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Strengthened my resolve.
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A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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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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Everyone has a story, and sometimes our egos choose to ignore that. Don’t take everything personally—it is usually not about you.
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Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.
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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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Negativity is a trait, not someone’s identity.
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When you’re brushing, just brush. When you’re showering, just shower.
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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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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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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.
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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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A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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