{"id":1485,"date":"2015-02-02T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorriejones.net\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:11:07","slug":"inner-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/mindful-minutes\/inner-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Minute: Inner Life by Parker Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.\u201d \u2014Parker Palmer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote moves me deeply as I am learning how to truly know something or someone. If I am not in touch with my own inner life and if I have not cultivated a deep self-understanding then I am at the mercy of my limited perceptions and self-made judgments. I long for, rather, a life of patience, compassion and connection with both others and myself.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Have you noticed how easy it is to \u201csee\u201d something without really knowing it? Or to see someone through our own limited vision rather than through a more spacious lens? I welcome your thoughts and comments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1487\" alt=\"woman-on-beach_istockLG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lorriejones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woman-on-beach_istockLG-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woman-on-beach_istockLG-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woman-on-beach_istockLG-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woman-on-beach_istockLG-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woman-on-beach_istockLG-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed how easy it is to \u201csee\u201d something without really knowing it? Or to see someone through our own limited vision rather than through a more spacious lens? I welcome your thoughts and comments. <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/mindful-minutes\/inner-life\/\">Mindful Minute: Inner Life by Parker Palmer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[267,268],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindful-minutes","tag-inner-life","tag-parker-palmer","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simpleserenity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}