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When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.

Jay Shetty

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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Choice Ego Ignorance Personal Story Time Yourself
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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Character Darkness Destruction Myself Teacher Yourself
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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Born Breathe Change Country Death Family Friendship Live Moments Stay Yourself
What’s on your news feed is feeding your mind.
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Consumption Feed Mindset Yourself
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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Action Deep Fear Ourselves Wisdom
A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.
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Deep Detachment Family Home Mindset Ourselves Practice Wisdom
A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.
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Alive Goal Person Present
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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Appearance End Life Pretend True Worst
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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Action Feeling Freedom Need Reality Remember Talk Willing
Salt is so humble that when something goes wrong, it takes the blame, and when everything goes right, it doesn’t take credit.
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Blame Character Humble Right Wrong
You are who you are when no one is watching.
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Alone Deep Identity Personality Reality Yourself
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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Better Destiny Imitation Imperfection Live Perfection
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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Attention Boredom Complaint Freedom Memories Mindset People Poor Problem Understand
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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Aspiration Death Dreams Life Live Lose Ourselves Purpose Service Short
We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.
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Deep Equality Happiness Ideas Illusion Philosophy Success Thinking
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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Failure Love People Return

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