next step is to decide what your values are and whether your choices are in alignment with them. Contemplating monk values may help you identify your own

1. Higher values
2. Lower values

Higher values propel and elevate us toward happiness, fulfillment and meaning. Lower values demote us toward anxiety, depression, and suffering

fearlessness, purity of mind, gratitude, service and charity, acceptance, performing sacrifice, deep study, austerity, straightforwardness, nonviolence, truthfulness, absence of anger, renunciation, perspective, finding the good, compassion toward all living beings, satisfaction, gentleness/kindness, integrity, determination ✨

Why we Think we are Right Even When we are Wrong are we ashamed or grateful when we discover we were wrong about something? Are we defensive or intrigued when we find information that contradicts something we know? If we aren’t open-minded, we deny ourselves opportunities to learn, grow, and change

You can only keep up the myth of your own importance for so long. If you don’t break your ego, life will break it for you

GRATITUDE It’s hard to believe that thankfulness could actually have measurable benefits, but the science is there. Gratitude has been linked to better mental health, self-awareness, better relationships, and a sense of fulfillment 🙌❤️