{"id":166,"date":"2007-10-25T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/25\/its-own-reward\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T13:50:56","slug":"its-own-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Its Own Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>We can never feel taken advantage of or exploited in the experience of compassion, for compassion is its own reward.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>Even if it turns out that someone else&#8217;s defenses or weaknesses have motivated manipulation, we have the self-satisfaction of knowing that we acted out of compassion, which is always the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>Manual of the Core Value Workshop, <\/em>p. 36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We can never feel taken advantage of or exploited in the experience of compassion, for compassion is its own reward.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if it turns out that someone else&#8217;s defenses or weaknesses have motivated manipulation, we have the self-satisfaction of knowing that we acted out of compassion, which is always the right thing.&#8221; &#8212; Steven Stosny, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}