{"id":4275,"date":"2009-07-07T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2009-07-07T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:44:38","slug":"my-beautiful-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=4275","title":{"rendered":"My beautiful life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw in my yoga book “Beauty<\/em> is a\u00a0remembrance of the whole,<\/em>” by John Friend – it was a poignant statement.<\/p>\n

Michele was speaking about the full or poonam moon and how it is a like a large mirror that reflects our image back at us. It followed a thread from this morning, when I was sifting through the NYT and came across the article on Happiness and then read some of the comments, I stumbled on one, from an older gentlemen who was regaling his beautiful life with his young family and 35 year younger wife but he said, I don’t know what to do about those moments of sadness from my past.<\/p>\n

I wanted to write back and say, hey, they are one and the same.<\/p>\n

What I would tell this man in truth is that to live is to experience anguish and regret, and joy is amplified by knowing sorrow. When I think sometimes of my past, I have a huge elephant that sits on my chest who wants to crush me until it squeezes out the last tear but then I catch a deep breath and next thing you know I am on top of the elephant and riding high into the sunset.<\/p>\n

Joy – sorrow, happiness – sadness, they all come together to make a whole and they are the foundations of my beautiful life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw in my yoga book “Beauty is a\u00a0remembrance of the whole,” by John Friend – it was a poignant statement. Michele was speaking about the full or poonam moon and how it is a like a large mirror that reflects our image back at us. It followed a thread from this morning, when I was sifting through the NYT and came across the article on Happiness and then read some of the comments, I… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-16X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}