{"id":6004,"date":"2019-01-20T00:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2019-01-20T00:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T04:14:59","slug":"expanded-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6004","title":{"rendered":"Expanded Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Salzberg-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Salzberg-13.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Salzberg-13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Salzberg-13-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>In mindfulness, we are talking about a sense of an expanded present. Our protestations, our clinging to the past, our efforts to control the future may arise, but they are strongly attenuated by remembering to simply be with what is. We drop through our reactions to a space of profound, grateful connection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that is love of life itself. Always keep in mind that in reality, what we might have in this moment with a friend, with a place, with a dance, with a poem <em>is<\/em> the one more time. Treasure it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sharon Salzberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/real_love.html\"><em>Real Love<\/em><\/a>, p. 290<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 17, 2019<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mindfulness, we are talking about a sense of an expanded present. Our protestations, our clinging to the past, our efforts to control the future may arise, but they are strongly attenuated by remembering to simply be with what is. We drop through our reactions to a space of profound, grateful connection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-joy","category-life","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","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=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}