{"id":717,"date":"2009-01-24T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/01\/24\/feelings-and-circumstances\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T03:30:05","slug":"feelings-and-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Feelings and Circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my vantage point, you&#8217;d have seen many, many people who are deeply loved and still lonely, beautiful and still horribly self-conscious, professionally successful and still so terrified of failure that their nocturnal tooth-gnashing could crush diamonds.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s something you&#8217;ll need to hold in your mind, at least temporarily, if you want to get a good look at your own North Star:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>External circumstances do not create feeling states.\u00c2\u00a0 Feeling states create external circumstances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Martha Beck, <em>Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life No Matter What!, <\/em>p. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my vantage point, you&#8217;d have seen many, many people who are deeply loved and still lonely, beautiful and still horribly self-conscious, professionally successful and still so terrified of failure that their nocturnal tooth-gnashing could crush diamonds.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s something you&#8217;ll need to hold in your mind, at least temporarily, if you want to get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-peace","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}