“I was at business school doing pretty well for myself, had a few offer...” — Jay Shetty Quote

I was at business school doing pretty well for myself, had a few offers from some great companies. But when I traveled across the world, I was shocked by just how much pain, struggle, and anguish people had to go through to have basic necessities.

We have a tendency to assume or believe saying I love you means we are ready for love, or that hearing it from someone else means they are ready. We just assume that we are on the same page about what it means. We don't know what someone else is thinking, projecting, assuming, expecting when they say that.

I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day.

But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art.

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.