{"id":1180,"date":"1998-12-18T12:47:16","date_gmt":"1998-12-18T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:06:37","slug":"i-am-not-for-myself-who-will-be-for-me-and-if-i-am-only-for-myself-what-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/i-am-not-for-myself-who-will-be-for-me-and-if-i-am-only-for-myself-what-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Am Not For Myself, Who Will Be For Me? And If I Am Only For Myself, What Am I?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2900\" src=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/291539_149458198475255_2204063_o1.jpg\" alt=\"291539_149458198475255_2204063_o\" width=\"546\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/291539_149458198475255_2204063_o1.jpg 546w, https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/291539_149458198475255_2204063_o1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now &#8212; when?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">&#8212; Rabbi Hillel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love this quote, which has been my email sig line for a few months now.\u00a0 I feel like it expresses nicely and succinctly the importance of a balanced between, on the one hand, self-love and taking care of oneself, and, on the other, love of others, generosity, and connection.\u00a0 The quote also illustrates a balance of being present in the now and getting going today on what is really important.\u00a0 I think that the quote helps show how selfishness\/unselfishness is a false dichotomy, a false tension, because we help ourselves by caring for our relationships and communities and being generous, but we can&#8217;t truly give to another unless we care for and respect ourselves in the process.\u00a0 Ultimately, the two merge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote, which has been my email sig line for a few months now.  I feel like it expresses nicely and succinctly the importance of a balanced between, on the one hand, self-love and taking care of oneself, and, on the other, love of others, generosity, and connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,42,12,4,61],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balance-of-opposites","tag-love-relationships","tag-mental-health","tag-quotations","tag-the-western-philosophical-tradition","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}