{"id":6415,"date":"2018-06-06T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T02:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2018-06-06T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T02:57:18","slug":"high-value-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6415","title":{"rendered":"High Value Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/High-Value-Investment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/High-Value-Investment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/High-Value-Investment.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/High-Value-Investment-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/High-Value-Investment-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>experience<\/em> of value gives a heightened sense of vitality &#8212; you feel more alive looking at a beautiful sunset, connecting to a loved one, knowing genuine compassion for another person, having a spiritual experience, appreciating something creative, committing to a cause, or identifying with a community.  Valuing gives a greater sense of authenticity and often a greater sense of connection.  High value investment gives meaning and purpose to life, with a stronger motivation to improve, create, build, appreciate, connect, or protect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Stosny, <em>Empowered Love<\/em>, p. 82<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: South Riding, Virginia, June 6, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experience of value gives a heightened sense of vitality &#8212; you feel more alive looking at a beautiful sunset, connecting to a loved one, knowing genuine compassion for another person, having a spiritual experience, appreciating something creative, committing to a cause, or identifying with a community. Valuing gives a greater sense of authenticity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-love","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","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=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}