Whatever you think someone else should give to you, you need to be able to give yourself first.
Jay ShettyRead
If we don't choose to intentionally and consciously slow down and stop being in a rush, your body and mind will force you to do it anyway.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of consciously slowing down in life to avoid negative consequences on mental and physical health.
Jay Shetty's quote highlights the necessity of taking deliberate pauses in our fast-paced lives. It suggests that if we neglect to intentionally slow down and reflect, the stress and exhaustion we accumulate will ultimately manifest in our bodies and minds, forcing us to take a break against our will. This serves as a reminder of the importance of mindfulness and self-care in maintaining our overall well-being.
In practice
In a wellness seminar discussing the effects of stress on health.
Whatever you think someone else should give to you, you need to be able to give yourself first.
Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we're not encouraged to experiment; we're encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can't be that until you experiment. You don't know what's going to work until you try it.
When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made the best decision, because anyone who hadn't focused on building themselves up was the one losing out.
Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.
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