Jay Shetty Quotes

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.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.

you protect your dharma, your dharma protects you.

When we tune out the opinions, expectations, and obligations of the world around us, we being to hear ourselves.

You can’t be anything you want. But you can be everything you are.

We may feel empty, lost, broken, and hurt, but the soul is unbreak-
able. The Bhagavad Gita spends seven verses talking about the indestructibility of
the soul. “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestruc-
tible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. The soul can never be cut to
pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by
the wind. This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither
burned nor dried. It is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable
and eternally the same.

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.

At the end of the fast, I felt physically tired, but mentally stronger. In functioning without something my body relied on, I had broken a limit that existed in my mind. I gained flexibility and adaptability and resourcefulness. That experience with fasting bled into the rest of my life. Fasting is a physical challenge driven by the intellect. Being silent for long periods of time brought up completely different issues–who was I when I detached from other people?

Sangha significa «comunidad» en sánscrito y alude a un refugio en el que las personas se ayudan y se motivan mutuamente.

A crack in a wall suggests a structural problem that needs addressing and shouldn’t be ignored for too long.

Lembre-se: dizer tudo que queremos, quando queremos e da maneira que queremos não é liberdade. A verdadeira liberdade é não sentir necessidade de dizer essas coisas.

Fear makes us fiction writers.

Every time you move or embark on a new journey, you have a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to REINVENT yourself.

But if you’re in love with the day-to-day process, then you do it with depth, authenticity, and a desire to make an impact. You might be equally successful either way, but if you’re driven by intention, you will feel joy.

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.