{"id":105,"date":"2009-01-31T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch4cs.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-01-31T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:25:00","slug":"some-of-my-favorite-quotes-from-the-mirror-theory-by-betsy-otter-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/some-of-my-favorite-quotes-from-the-mirror-theory-by-betsy-otter-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of My Favorite Quotes From The Mirror Theory: by Betsy Otter-Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fear is created by refusing to face the truth about our lives. \u00a0But as soon as we do, fear disappears. \u00a0It only lives in a soul that refuses to make a decision. \u00a0To heal is to walk right into whatever we think is paralyzing us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It may seem to you that some people are more gifted than others, but gifts are chosen for the wisdom they offer the soul. &#8230; How many you have is not what makes or breaks your journey. \u00a0How you deal with the ones you have is.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t Jesus&#8217; friends become wise as a result of knowing him? \u00a0No, they become wise from \u00a0knowing themselves.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Eventually he realized that excellence wasn&#8217;t about how well he did something; it was about how well he felt in the doing. \u00a0As soon as he started loving the process he started loving the continuity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Jealousy gains a foothold<\/div>\n<div>When you lose a grip on<\/div>\n<div>The only solid footing you have &#8211;<\/div>\n<div>Your own tender expression&#8221;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Nothing valuable goes from one person to another, unless that transfer carries love.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;What am I supposed to do with all my garbage history? \u00a0The first thing you can do is to give it a name with reverence instead of mockery. \u00a0Call it the \u00a0love of God in search of self.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Then what&#8217;s the good of going back to my youth as a means of therapy? \u00a0The good comes from finding all the good reasons for living it. \u00a0Hasn&#8217;t it gotten you to this moment of greater awareness? \u00a0And isn&#8217;t that worthy of praise?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;How easy it is to forget that what I perceive as a handicap has been leading me to the true purpose for which I came here to live; how easy it is to forget that I don&#8217;t take anything with me when I leave the body behind except for the love I found while in it. \u00a0And how easy it is to forget that although the picture I experienced was often hard to endure, the inspiration that followed truly changed my life.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fear is created by refusing to face the truth about our lives. \u00a0But as soon as we do, fear disappears. \u00a0It only lives in a soul that refuses to make a decision. \u00a0To heal is to walk right into whatever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/some-of-my-favorite-quotes-from-the-mirror-theory-by-betsy-otter-thompson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ch4cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}