{"id":331,"date":"2008-01-24T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T02:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/24\/forgiveness-as-acceptance\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T02:46:32","slug":"forgiveness-as-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness as Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to remain at peace when you do not get what you want is forgiveness&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>When you want something different from what you actually get, you are always in a position of struggle.\u00c2\u00a0 That struggle often shows up as anger or despair or a sense of helplessness.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that you can get over those negative emotional reactions and learn to be at peace&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you remain at peace is mostly up to you.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness contains the understanding that another person&#8217;s action, no matter how awful, does not compel you to be endlessly miserable, angry, or emotionally distraught.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dr. Fred Luskin, <em>Forgive for Love, <\/em>p. 14-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to remain at peace when you do not get what you want is forgiveness&#8230;. When you want something different from what you actually get, you are always in a position of struggle.\u00c2\u00a0 That struggle often shows up as anger or despair or a sense of helplessness.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}