{"id":739,"date":"2009-02-17T23:12:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T03:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/02\/17\/bring-an-umbrella\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T23:12:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T03:12:53","slug":"bring-an-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Bring an Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is where most people get stuck.\u00c2\u00a0 To get what they want, they try <em>wanting harder.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 They yearn more deeply, try harder to become worthy.\u00c2\u00a0 They build the case about why they should have what they want, but this very attitude requires holding the desire as other (out of reach).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a strange paradox that when you want a thing, you affirm that your life is wanting.\u00c2\u00a0 You affirm the Trance of Scarcity and lack&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We need to recognize the formula that <em>does <\/em>work.\u00c2\u00a0 That formula is not desire but confident expectation.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an example of energy matching energy, impersonal but reliable.\u00c2\u00a0 When you pray for rain, bring an umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Victoria Castle, <em>The Trance of Scarcity, <\/em>p. 111 &#038; 117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where most people get stuck.\u00c2\u00a0 To get what they want, they try wanting harder.\u00c2\u00a0 They yearn more deeply, try harder to become worthy.\u00c2\u00a0 They build the case about why they should have what they want, but this very attitude requires holding the desire as other (out of reach).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a strange paradox that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-growth","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}