{"id":8688,"date":"2020-11-28T22:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T02:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2020-11-28T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:02:16","slug":"our-needs-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8688","title":{"rendered":"Our Needs Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kolber-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kolber-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kolber-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kolber-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kolber-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because our brains are shaped around what we notice, self-attunement helps us become better and more effective at listening to the heartbeat of our own humanity.  And here&#8217;s what I truly love about the way we are designed:  As we do our own internal work, we quite literally develop the capacity to listen to and love others more fully than before.  Now it&#8217;s worth saying that we don&#8217;t do our work <em>only<\/em> so we will love others better &#8212; although it&#8217;s a beautiful benefit.  Nope, we are invited to connect to and respond to our internal world because we are deeply valuable and loved by God; and because that is true, we can rest in the fact that our needs matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Aundi Kolber, <em>Try Softer<\/em>, p. 133<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Chateau de Chillon, Lake Geneva, Switzerland, November 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because our brains are shaped around what we notice, self-attunement helps us become better and more effective at listening to the heartbeat of our own humanity. And here&#8217;s what I truly love about the way we are designed: As we do our own internal work, we quite literally develop the capacity to listen to and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","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=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}