{"id":653,"date":"2008-11-03T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T03:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/11\/03\/being-lavish\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T03:38:50","slug":"being-lavish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Being Lavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stinginess sits at one end of the continuum.\u00c2\u00a0 At the other end is the experience of being lavish.\u00c2\u00a0 For many of us, that word produces an instant response: <em>Oh, I couldn&#8217;t, I shouldn&#8217;t!<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 But if you don&#8217;t give to yourself, how will your life become abundant?\u00c2\u00a0 Lavish means stepping wholeheartedly into the big middle of life, rather than just tiptoeing partway in.\u00c2\u00a0 Lavish means letting the flow of life move freely through you.\u00c2\u00a0 Lavish isn&#8217;t busy trying to control everything (that&#8217;s stingy).\u00c2\u00a0 Lavish is juicy, and yes, it&#8217;s messy.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Victoria Castle, <em>The Trance of Scarcity, <\/em>p. 43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stinginess sits at one end of the continuum.\u00c2\u00a0 At the other end is the experience of being lavish.\u00c2\u00a0 For many of us, that word produces an instant response: Oh, I couldn&#8217;t, I shouldn&#8217;t!\u00c2\u00a0 But if you don&#8217;t give to yourself, how will your life become abundant?\u00c2\u00a0 Lavish means stepping wholeheartedly into the big middle of [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}