{"id":868,"date":"2006-03-06T23:02:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/06\/868\/"},"modified":"2006-03-06T23:02:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T04:02:05","slug":"868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/868\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without self-examination, or self-observation, we do not see the way<br \/>\nout.&nbsp; Yet, many times, we are afraid to look closely, because we<br \/>\nfear that there is no solution. Yet, there is always a solution, there<br \/>\nis always an alternative. If at first the solution or alternative that<br \/>\nappears before you seems undoable, then you have choices. You can keep<br \/>\nlooking for another alternative, you can examine the one that you see<br \/>\nand decide which part is workable and which part is not, or of course,<br \/>\nyou can choose to do nothing about it at the moment. That is what is<br \/>\ncalled free will.<br \/>\n&#8211; Marie T. Russell<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDoing the next thing that comes before you is the easy way to success.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t make a problem out of life and don&#8217;t be ensnared in doubt and<br \/>\nprocrastination. just go in there and do it. Observe all the minute<br \/>\nparticulars, and then realize the essence of it. Then let go<br \/>\nimmediately so as not to get stuck anywhere. Learn as you go.<br \/>\n&#8211; Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu and Emily Popp<\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness is the fragrance<br \/>\nthat the violet sheds<br \/>\non the heel that crushed it.<br \/>\n&#8211; Samuel Clemens <br \/>\n(quoted by Dr. Wayne Dyer on PBS special 3-6-06)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without self-examination, or self-observation, we do not see the way out.&nbsp; Yet, many times, we are afraid to look closely, because we fear that there is no solution. Yet, there is always a solution, there is always an alternative. If at first the solution or alternative that appears before you seems undoable, then you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}