{"id":740,"date":"2009-02-18T23:30:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/02\/18\/finding-treasure\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T23:30:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:30:57","slug":"finding-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Finding Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adopting the perspective of the Stargazer not only leads us toward our future best destinies but actually transmutes past unhappiness into treasure.\u00c2\u00a0 This is because, in emotional terms, everything is made from its opposite.\u00c2\u00a0 The raw material for joy is sorrow; the raw material for compassion is anger; the raw material for fearlessness is fear.\u00c2\u00a0 This means that the very people who hurt you worst may turn out to have enriched you most.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Forgiveness&#8221; isn&#8217;t even an issue from the position of the Stargazer.\u00c2\u00a0 Why would anyone bother to &#8220;forgive&#8221; someone who&#8217;d made them rich?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Martha Beck, <em>Steering by Starlight, <\/em>p. 76<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopting the perspective of the Stargazer not only leads us toward our future best destinies but actually transmutes past unhappiness into treasure.\u00c2\u00a0 This is because, in emotional terms, everything is made from its opposite.\u00c2\u00a0 The raw material for joy is sorrow; the raw material for compassion is anger; the raw material for fearlessness is fear.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,21,8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-forgiveness","category-healing","category-joy","category-life","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}