{"id":4646,"date":"2016-11-26T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2016-11-26T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T22:02:15","slug":"growth-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"Growth and Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get very angry with ourselves.  We think we ought to be supermen and superwomen from the start.  The Dalai Lama&#8217;s serenity didn&#8217;t come fully formed.  It was through the practice of prayer and meditation that the gentleness, the compassion grew, his being patient and accepting &#8212; within reasonable limits.  Accepting circumstances as they are, because if there are circumstances that you cannot change, then it&#8217;s no use beating your head against a brick wall; that just gives you a headache.  This is a vale of growth and development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, quoted by Douglas Abrams in <em>The Book of Joy<\/em>, p. 92<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get very angry with ourselves. We think we ought to be supermen and superwomen from the start. The Dalai Lama&#8217;s serenity didn&#8217;t come fully formed. It was through the practice of prayer and meditation that the gentleness, the compassion grew, his being patient and accepting &#8212; within reasonable limits. Accepting circumstances as they are, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}