Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

by Jay Shetty

Instead of reacting compulsively and retaliating, we could enjoy our freedom as human beings and refuse to be upset.”

For every negative person in your life, have three uplifting people.

If we try to be problem-solvers, then we become frustrated when people don’t take our brilliant advice.

Petty, negative thoughts and words are like mosquitos:

What we judge or envy or suspect in someone else can guide us to the darkness we have within ourselves.

Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.

but from being the person we want to be.

In English, we have the words “empathy” and “compassion” to express our ability to feel the pain that others suffer, but we don’t have a word for experiencing vicarious joy—joy on behalf of other people. Perhaps this is a sign that we all need to work on

the reason we’re hurting over our past is because we’ve made progress.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life. —Buddha

“Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than reality.”

When we are actually experiencing challenges, it’s difficult to tell ourselves, “This could end up being a good thing!”

If we don’t learn from the signal that alerts us to a problem, we’ll end up learning from the results of the problem itself,

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

“Think about your motivations. Do you want to memorize all of the scripture because it’s an impressive achievement, or do you want the experience of having studied

When we perform work with the conviction that what we do matters, we can live intensely.