Clinging to temporary things gives them power over us, and they become sources of pain and fear. But when we accept the temporary nature of everythin… - Jay Shetty

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.

We have to be gardeners of our own lives, planting only the seeds of good intentions, watching to see what they become, and removing the weeds that spring up and get in the way.

As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

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.