{"id":7834,"date":"2019-04-26T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T03:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2019-04-26T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T03:19:32","slug":"be-beautiful-be-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7834","title":{"rendered":"Be Beautiful, Be Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nhat-Hanh-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nhat-Hanh-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nhat-Hanh-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Nhat-Hanh-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can accept your body, then you have a chance to see your body as your home.  You can rest in your body, settle in, relax, and feel joy and ease.  If you don&#8217;t accept your body and your mind, you can&#8217;t be at home with yourself.  You have to accept yourself as you are.  This is a very important practice.  As you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Thich Nhat Hanh, <em>How\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0Love<\/em>, p. 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, April 8, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can accept your body, then you have a chance to see your body as your home. You can rest in your body, settle in, relax, and feel joy and ease. If you don&#8217;t accept your body and your mind, you can&#8217;t be at home with yourself. You have to accept yourself as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-beauty","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7977,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/7977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}