{"id":12414,"date":"2006-06-04T07:16:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T11:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2023-03-22T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:17:38","slug":"the-prickly-people-060412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/?p=12414","title":{"rendered":"the prickly people &#8230; (06\/04\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOVE goes far beyond mere tolerance &#8230; It cannot be neutral and survive.<\/p>\n<p>The moment your &#8220;love&#8221; becomes a bland resignation or a silent  criticism or a turning away to &#8220;live and let live&#8221;, that is the moment  your true LOVE dies.<\/p>\n<p>In order  to truly BE, LOVE has to be actively given, and it has to be given  radically.  You&#8217;ve got to open up and risk yourself &#8212; you&#8217;ve got to  have the guts to be Kind to your life&#8217;s &#8220;prickly people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After  all, these are the folks who obviously aren&#8217;t getting  the same from  anyone else &#8230; They are the ones who obviously need your LOVE the most.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; got LOVE?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/04-Love-your-prickly-friends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12415\" title=\"04 Love your prickly friends\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/04-Love-your-prickly-friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/04-Love-your-prickly-friends.jpg 500w, http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/04-Love-your-prickly-friends-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVE goes far beyond mere tolerance &#8230; It cannot be neutral and survive. The moment your &#8220;love&#8221; becomes a bland resignation or a silent criticism or a turning away to &#8220;live and let live&#8221;, that is the moment your true LOVE dies. In order to truly BE, LOVE has to be actively given, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[15,207,117,119,161,208,111,76,22,28,50,194,167,121],"class_list":["post-12414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-few-practical-tips-for-peace-full-living","tag-acceptance","tag-caring","tag-change","tag-community","tag-courage","tag-enemies","tag-forgiveness","tag-happiness","tag-kindness","tag-love","tag-oneness","tag-salvation","tag-selflessness","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12416,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions\/12416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}