Jay Shetty Quotes

We acquire skills like compassion, empathy, and patience (Rule 1). This prepares us to share love because we’ll need these qualities when we love someone else. We will also examine our past relationships to avoid making the same mistakes in relationships going forward (Rule 2).

आप वही हैं, जो आप तब होते हैं, जब कोई नहीं देख रहा होता है।

Expand your senses, expand your world, and the pain will diminish. Don’t be the glass. Become the lake.

When your natural talents and passions (your varna) connect with what the universe needs (seva) and become your purpose, you are living in your dharma.

Every choice in life is a battle between two wolves inside us. One represents anger, envy, greed, fear, lies, insecurity, and ego. The other represents peace, love, compassion, kindness, humility, and positivity. They are competing for supremacy.’ “ ‘Which wolf wins?’ the grandson asks. ‘The one you feed,’ the elder replies.” “But how do we feed them?” I asked my teacher. The monk said, “By what we read and hear. By who we spend time with. By what we do with our time. By where we focus our energy and attention.

When you are present in gratitude, you can't be anywhere else.

To live intentionally, we must dig to the deepest why behind the want.

I define the deepest love as when you like someone’s personality, respect their values, and help them toward their goals in a long-term, committed relationship.

When you like a flower, you pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily.

When the five senses and the mind are stilled, when the reasoning intellect rests in silence, then begins the highest path. — the Katha Upanishad

The Monastic Way quotes Benedictine monk Dom Aelred Graham as saying, “The monk may think he has come [to the monastery] to gain something for himself: peace, security, quiet, a life of prayer, or study, or teaching; but if his vocation is genuine, he finds that he has come not to take but to give.

Revenge is the mode of ignorance — it’s often said that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.

when the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change

The emotion you fall asleep with at night is most likely the emotion you’ll wake up with in the morning.

A bond has its own challenges — there can still be disagreement — but at least all parties want the same outcome.