{"id":268,"date":"2007-12-26T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/26\/living-in-the-present\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T02:49:18","slug":"living-in-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However we perceive the past, whether in a positive or a negative light, concentrating on it makes us unhappier in the present.\u00c2\u00a0 The past is past.<\/p>\n<p>Through deliberate present-minded focus we can breathe in new life, new positive energy, letting go of the way things were in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 When we grow more mindful, we open our hearts to forgiveness and choose not to get bogged down in placing blame or getting even with others.\u00c2\u00a0 When we let go of the past, we gain in wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0 We feel lighter and brighter, inspired by what we&#8217;ve learned, ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Alexandra Stoddard, <em>Choosing Happiness:\u00c2\u00a0 Keys to a Joyful Life, <\/em>p. 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However we perceive the past, whether in a positive or a negative light, concentrating on it makes us unhappier in the present.\u00c2\u00a0 The past is past. Through deliberate present-minded focus we can breathe in new life, new positive energy, letting go of the way things were in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 When we grow more mindful, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-joy","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}