Jay Shetty Quotes

Many of us are so addicted to recreating the same experiences that we don't make space for new ones. What you were actually doing at the start of your relationship was creating new memories with energy and openness. Love is kept alive by creating more new memories. By continuing to learn and grow together. Fresh experiences bring excitement into your life and build a stronger bond.

Reflect on the three best and three worst choices you’ve ever made. Why did you make them? What have you learned? How would you have done it differently? Take a close look at your answers to the Try This above — buried in them are your values. Why did you make a choice?

I only find joy in my own successes, I'm limiting my joy. But if I can take pleasure in the successes of my friends and family–ten, twenty, fifty people!–I get to experience fifty times the happiness and joy. Who doesn't want that?

The Bhagavad Gita states, “For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.

There are infinite austerities or challenges you can try: giving up TV or your phone, sweets or alcohol; taking on a physical challenge; abstaining from gossip, complaining, and comparing. The austerity that was most powerful for me was meditating in cold or heat. The only way to escape the cold was to go inward. I had to learn to redirect my attention from the physical discomfort by talking to my mind.

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.

OM TAT SAT “The absolute truth is eternal.

I Am What I Think I Am

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

I had to reach back to my childhood to pinpoint why I felt unloved and unworthy. My paternal grandmother set the tone for this feeling. I realized she treated me differently because she didn’t like my mother. [I had to] forgive her even though she passed on already. I realized I was always worthy and always lovable. She was broken, not I.

Monks can withstand temptations, refrain from criticizing, deal with pain and anxiety, quiet the ego, and build lives that brim with purpose and meaning. Why shouldn’t we learn from the calmest, happiest, most purposeful people on earth?

Senses recklessly transport our minds away from where we want them to be. Don’t tease your own senses. Don’t set yourself up to fail. A monk doesn’t spend time in a strip club. We want to minimize the mind’s reactive tendencies, and the easiest way to do that is for the intellect to proactively steer the senses away from stimuli that could make the mind react in ways that are hard to control. It’s up to the intellect to know when you’re vulnerable and to tighten the reins, just as a charioteer does when going through a field of tasty grass.

External goals cannot fill internal voids.

Do not let other people's definition of success and happiness dictate your choices.

Even if you think you already know a story, try to live it as a new experience every time.