{"id":6730,"date":"2018-07-27T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T01:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2018-07-27T22:01:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:01:45","slug":"self-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6730","title":{"rendered":"Self-definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Evans-P-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you were defined in any way, you heard nonsense, irrational comments, and pretend talk.<\/p>\n<p>No one can take away your freedom to define yourself.  Self-definition is the gift of consciousness.  The moment you think of the abusive comment, focus on this affirmation because you truly are self-defining and so you will not entertain the comment for a moment longer.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be in the presence of someone who negatively defines you, it is okay to laugh at his or her irrational behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patricia Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/victory_over_verbal_abuse.html\">Victory Over Verbal Abuse<\/a><\/em>, p. 98<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Ross Castle, Ireland, July 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were defined in any way, you heard nonsense, irrational comments, and pretend talk. No one can take away your freedom to define yourself. Self-definition is the gift of consciousness. The moment you think of the abusive comment, focus on this affirmation because you truly are self-defining and so you will not entertain the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-growth","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}