{"id":8510,"date":"2010-07-07T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2010-07-07T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:58:58","slug":"escape-from-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=8510","title":{"rendered":"Escape from reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The days leading up to us leaving for our vacation are like walking on fire &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure I have what it takes to make it without exploding into a million pieces. The truth is I&#8217;m toast &#8211; just done with all th<em>e getting and spending where we lay waste our powers<\/em>. I&#8217;m ready to find myself again because I&#8217;ve gotten lost in everyone else&#8217;s agenda and certainly not my own.<\/p>\n<p>In yoga the other day Michele dedicated our practice to embracing who you are and being who you are. In a funny conversation with a source yesterday, he was saying, &#8220;We all follow the Dow,&#8221; but for some reason I thought he was saying, &#8220;We all follow the Tao.&#8221; And so I kept asking the Tao te Ching or the Dow of Wall Street? And we had a good hearty laugh. But I wonder why we are not following the Tao in lieu of Wall Street. Don&#8217;t more answers reside there?<\/p>\n<p>#73<br \/>\nThe Tao is always at ease.<br \/>\nIt overcomes without competing.<br \/>\nanswers without speaking a word,<br \/>\narrives without being summoned,<br \/>\naccomplishes without a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Its net covers the whole universe.<br \/>\nAnd though its meshes are wide,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t let a thing slip through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days leading up to us leaving for our vacation are like walking on fire &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure I have what it takes to make it without exploding into a million pieces. The truth is I&#8217;m toast &#8211; just done with all the getting and spending where we lay waste our powers. I&#8217;m ready to find myself again because I&#8217;ve gotten lost in everyone else&#8217;s agenda and certainly not my own. In yoga the&hellip; <\/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-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}