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

by Jay Shetty

When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.”

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. —Bhagavad Gita 3.35

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

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.”

The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us, the more lost we are.

Remember, saying whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, is not freedom. Real freedom is not feeling the need to say these things.

We are all the lucky vacationers enjoying our stay in Hotel Earth.

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

The emotion you fall asleep with at night is most likely the emotion you’ll wake up with in the morning. A STONE ON THE PATH

In the Hitopadeśa, an ancient Indian text by Nārāyana, the mind is compared to a drunken monkey that’s been bitten by a scorpion and haunted by a ghost.

“What belongs to you today, belonged to someone yesterday and will be someone else’s tomorrow.”

We seek to leave a place cleaner than we found it, people happier than we found them, the world better than we found it.