You are not your success or your failure.
JAY SHETTYI can use my awareness of my fear as a tool to help me make decisions that are truly in line with my values and purpose.
More Jay Shetty Quotes
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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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Everything you do is your spiritual 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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Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering.
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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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If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you.
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Never trust a spiritual leader who cannot dance.
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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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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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Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you—a hobby, a charity, a political cause.
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Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.
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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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The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.
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Fear makes us fiction writers.
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