What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- This suggests a principle of reciprocity where actions and energy directed outward return to the source.
- In plain terms
- Whatever you give to others will eventually come back to you.
- What can you take from it?
- Act with kindness and generosity because it tends to return to you.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are you giving to the world?
- How do you want to be treated?
Another view
Sometimes good deeds do not receive immediate or visible returns.
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