{"id":1239,"date":"2016-01-31T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2016-02-12T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:16:38","slug":"gentle-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/2016\/01\/31\/gentle-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you go along in your day, notice how many times you face a new challenge. You learn to adapt, meet new people, and move into the next stage in your life and relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/files\/2014\/11\/Novindex.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1125\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/files\/2014\/11\/Novindex.jpg\" alt=\"Novindex\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>At times, things go smoothly. Other times, you make a mess of things and everything goes wrong. It might feel devastating, and afterwards self-judgement makes the situation even worse. It is time to remember our spiritual journey requires gentleness, loving kindness and compassion to all beings. Remember that &#8220;all beings&#8221; includes you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to reflect:<\/p>\n<p><em>The wise will take<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>the journey of gentleness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Witnessing without judging<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>is the road of the expanding heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Breathe in Compassion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Breathe out Release.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Juan Velasco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you go along in your day, notice how many times you face a new challenge. You learn to adapt, meet new people, and move into the next stage in your life and relationships. At times, things go smoothly. Other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/2016\/01\/31\/gentle-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplative-leader","category-mindful-leader"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"writeherewritenow","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/author\/writeherewritenow\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/category\/contemplative-leader\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Contemplative Leader<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/category\/mindful-leader\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Mindful Leader<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"As you go along in your day, notice how many times you face a new challenge. You learn to adapt, meet new people, and move into the next stage in your life and relationships. At times, things go smoothly. Other &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/writeherewritenow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}