{"id":976,"date":"2009-11-16T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=976"},"modified":"2009-11-16T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:47:30","slug":"false-nobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"False Nobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have met many women and a few men in what are clearly difficult, sometimes abusive, or extremely negative relationships who think that they are doing something spiritually wonderful by staying in a situation that is clearly eroding their soul.  This is an example of the tribal belief <em>Spiritual growth is hard, and you have to change yourself so you can be happy in any situation with any person at all times.<\/em>  Personally, I don&#8217;t believe this at all.  It is responsible for more people staying in bad situations than any other tribal belief about spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Christel Nani, <em>Sacred Choices,<\/em> p. 284<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have met many women and a few men in what are clearly difficult, sometimes abusive, or extremely negative relationships who think that they are doing something spiritually wonderful by staying in a situation that is clearly eroding their soul. This is an example of the tribal belief Spiritual growth is hard, and you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}