Jay Shetty Quotes

Already I was being taught the most important lesson: to focus on the root of things, not the leaf of the tree or symptoms of the problem.

I discovered that I loved silence. I found that I didn’t need anything to entertain myself. I wasn’t distracted by conversation, flirtation, or expectations.

that the mud and muck of life’s challenges can provide fertile ground for our development. As the lotus grows, it rises through the water to eventually blossom.

If you follow your bliss, he said, “doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else

People determine how to treat us in large part by observing how we treat ourselves. The way you speak about yourself affects how people will speak with you. the way you allow yourself to be spoken to reinforces what people think you deserve.

Mastery requires deliberate practice, and lots of it. But if you love it, you do it.

La persona que un día es tu maestro puede ser tu alumno al siguiente

What we judge/envy/suspect in someone else can guide us to the darkness we have within ourselves. Our envy, impatience, suspicion with someone else tells us something about ourselves. Negative projections and suspicions reflect our own insecurities and get in our way.

But trust comes with quiet reliability.

When monks talk about happiness, they tell the story of the musk deer, a tale derived from a poem by Kabir, a fifteenth-century Indian mystic and poet. The musk deer picks up an irresistible scent in the forest and chases it, searching for the source, not realizing that the scent comes from its own pores. It spends its whole life wandering fruitlessly. In the same way we search for happiness, finding it elusive, when it can be found within us.

You wanted to jump into doing at the start, but your performance will only be as strong as the learning and experimenting you did beforehand.

When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.