{"id":756,"date":"2009-03-27T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T02:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/03\/27\/being-lavish-2\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T02:46:13","slug":"being-lavish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Being Lavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overindulging or acting unconsciously is quite different from being lavish.\u00c2\u00a0 When we are lavish, we inhabit the unconflicted realm of <em>Yes <\/em>&#8212; wholehearted and intentional enthusiasm for life. . . .\u00c2\u00a0 When we make strict rules for ourselves about what is allowed and how we may feel, we&#8217;re being stingy with ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 That stinginess leads to frustration, suspicion, righteous anger, and, ultimately, grim resignation.\u00c2\u00a0 If we don&#8217;t believe we can have what we want, we unconsciously create lifestyles that assure we can&#8217;t possibly be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Victoria Castle, <em>The Trance of Scarcity, <\/em>p. 125<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overindulging or acting unconsciously is quite different from being lavish.\u00c2\u00a0 When we are lavish, we inhabit the unconflicted realm of Yes &#8212; wholehearted and intentional enthusiasm for life. . . .\u00c2\u00a0 When we make strict rules for ourselves about what is allowed and how we may feel, we&#8217;re being stingy with ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 That stinginess leads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}