{"id":6439,"date":"2006-06-09T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T05:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2023-03-22T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:20:10","slug":"on-the-self-the-self-060911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/?p=6439","title":{"rendered":"on the self &#038; the Self &#8230; (06\/09\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made of &#8220;showing yourself respect&#8221;, and there is indeed an ego that longs for &#8220;the best&#8221; &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Such a &#8220;good life&#8221; is a wonderful thing to strive for &amp; a beautiful thing to know &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>AND there is another SELF within us. To give to this SELF, we must align our desires differently &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>to Respect this SELF we must give our forgiveness to Loved ones, our kindness to strangers, and our hearts to enemies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/main_mask_true_self.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6440\" title=\"main_mask_true_self\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/main_mask_true_self.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/main_mask_true_self.jpg 307w, http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/main_mask_true_self-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made of &#8220;showing yourself respect&#8221;, and there is indeed an ego that longs for &#8220;the best&#8221; &#8212; Such a &#8220;good life&#8221; is a wonderful thing to strive for &amp; a beautiful thing to know &#8230; AND there is another SELF within us. To give to this SELF, we must align our desires [&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":[671,589,208,22,28,81,415,337],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-few-practical-tips-for-peace-full-living","tag-balance","tag-ego","tag-enemies","tag-kindness","tag-love","tag-self-love","tag-self-respect","tag-true-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61961,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/61961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiringthealtruisticmoment.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}