{"id":8637,"date":"2020-08-17T23:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2020-08-17T23:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T03:17:02","slug":"no-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8637","title":{"rendered":"No Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-13.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-13-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-13-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We must learn how to recognize the positive flow and to distinguish it from the negative resistance within ourselves.  It takes years, I think.  <em>If a voice comes from accusation and leads to accusation, it is quite simply the voice of the &#8220;Accuser,&#8221; which is the literal meaning of the biblical word &#8220;Satan.&#8221;<\/em>  Shaming, accusing, or blaming is simply not how God talks.  It is how <em>we<\/em> talk.  God is supremely nonviolent, and I have learned that from the saints and mystics that I have read and met and heard about.  That many holy people cannot be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/universal_christ.html\">The Universal Christ<\/a><\/em>, p. 89<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Scotland, July 11, 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must learn how to recognize the positive flow and to distinguish it from the negative resistance within ourselves. It takes years, I think. If a voice comes from accusation and leads to accusation, it is quite simply the voice of the &#8220;Accuser,&#8221; which is the literal meaning of the biblical word &#8220;Satan.&#8221; Shaming, accusing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-core-value","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8639,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions\/8639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}