{"id":74,"date":"2007-09-12T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T13:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/09\/12\/walk-off-the-battlefield\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T13:06:31","slug":"walk-off-the-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Walk off the Battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The process of letting go of your more destructive emotions and darker impulses does not require tight control of the subject matter of your thoughts, although most people think it does.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it doesn&#8217;t require control of your thoughts or feelings in any way.\u00c2\u00a0 You are not at war with circumstances, your behavior, other people&#8217;s behavior, your feelings, other people&#8217;s feelings, your thoughts, or other people&#8217;s thoughts.\u00c2\u00a0 You simply are not at war.\u00c2\u00a0 It is just the reverse.\u00c2\u00a0 Letting go is freedom.\u00c2\u00a0 When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Hugh Prather, <em>The Little Book of Letting Go,<\/em> p. 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The process of letting go of your more destructive emotions and darker impulses does not require tight control of the subject matter of your thoughts, although most people think it does.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it doesn&#8217;t require control of your thoughts or feelings in any way.\u00c2\u00a0 You are not at war with circumstances, your behavior, other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}