{"id":762,"date":"2009-04-04T22:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T02:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/04\/04\/enchantment-is-self-serve\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:13:40","slug":"enchantment-is-self-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Enchantment Is Self-serve."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all of you who would like more excitement, pleasure, and satisfaction in your lives, please take note: Enchantment is self-serve.\u00a0 Opportunities abound, <em>if you are available.<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As we have seen, it isn&#8217;t certain <em>things <\/em>that satisfy us, it is our capacity to be satisfied.\u00a0 Are you satisfiable?\u00a0 Notice that I&#8217;m not saying you should settle for less; rather, I&#8217;m suggesting that you develop the capacity to Receive more.\u00a0 The last line of Derek Walcott&#8217;s poem &#8220;Love After Love&#8221; says it beautifully: &#8220;Sit.\u00a0 Feast on your life.&#8221;\u00a0 What are you presented with that you might fully Receive in this moment, this place, this income, this age, this you, this life?\u00a0 Whatever it is: Sit.\u00a0 Feast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Victoria Castle, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/trance_of_scarcity.html\">The Trance of Scarcity<\/a>, <\/em>p. 130-132<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all of you who would like more excitement, pleasure, and satisfaction in your lives, please take note: Enchantment is self-serve.\u00a0 Opportunities abound, if you are available.&#8230; As we have seen, it isn&#8217;t certain things that satisfy us, it is our capacity to be satisfied.\u00a0 Are you satisfiable?\u00a0 Notice that I&#8217;m not saying you should [&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-762","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\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10642,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/10642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}