{"id":535,"date":"2008-06-18T22:13:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/18\/positive-intention\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T22:13:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T02:13:02","slug":"positive-intention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Positive Intention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is that as we connect to our positive intention, we begin to find forgiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is the compassion we experience as we remind ourselves that by driving a car &#8212; having a relationship &#8212; we run the risk of a breakdown.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is the power we get as we assert that we have a deep well of resilience to draw upon.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is the grace that helps us remember to look around while we&#8217;re on the side of the road and appreciate our beautiful surroundings and the people we love.\u00c2\u00a0 To help forgiveness emerge, we can learn to see ourselves from the point of view of our positive intention, not primarily as a wounded or rejected lover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dr. Fred Luskin, <em>Forgive for Love, <\/em>p. 190<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is that as we connect to our positive intention, we begin to find forgiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is the compassion we experience as we remind ourselves that by driving a car &#8212; having a relationship &#8212; we run the risk of a breakdown.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is the power we get as we assert that 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":[17,25,11,21,8,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-forgiveness","category-healing","category-joy","category-love","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}