{"id":31780,"date":"2023-08-15T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=31780"},"modified":"2023-08-26T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:21:16","slug":"relief-nowhere-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-deeds\/relief-nowhere-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief Nowhere in sight?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cPractice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.\u201d<\/p><cite>Rumi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong><em>\u201cWhen I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, without pain.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>Rumi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Think again &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not as beautiful to our ears as an ancient Persian poem, there&#8217;s the Japanese short terse proverb &#8211; &#8220;Even on a stone, sit on it for 3 years&#8221; &#8211; Who sits on a stone for 3 years anyway &#8211; really, who does that?  (actually Yogis do!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means even a stone, natually cold, after sitting on it for 3 years will be warm &#8230; patience, it preaches in a short terse &#8211; is such a virtue we must cultivate &#8211; I&#8217;m just &#8216;SAYING&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPractice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.\u201d Rumi \u201cWhen I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety. If I sit in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31818,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions\/31818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}