{"id":5986,"date":"2018-10-31T23:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T03:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2018-10-31T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T03:14:21","slug":"freeing-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"Freeing Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Salzberg-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Salzberg-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Salzberg-8.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Salzberg-8-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.  What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom.  As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer.  Forgiveness allows us to move on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sharon Salzberg, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/real_love.html\">Real Love<\/a><\/em>, p. 199<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 31, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves. What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on. &#8212; Sharon Salzberg, Real Love, p. 199 Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 31, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","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=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}