{"id":486,"date":"2007-09-16T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/09\/16\/blessings\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:14:00","slug":"blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/09\/16\/blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/09\/mahabaleshwar1.jpg\" title=\"mahabaleshwar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/09\/mahabaleshwar1.jpg\" alt=\"Mahabaleshwar, India\" height=\"209\" style=\"width: 228px;height: 209px\" title=\"Mahabaleshwar, India\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Hearts a-flutter, we stand at the precipice.<br \/>\nWhat does the future hold?<br \/>\nAre we brave enough<br \/>\nTo take the leap of faith<br \/>\nThat propels us into the unknown?<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>With our minds grounded in human existence<br \/>\nWe are not aware of the storehouse<br \/>\nOf love and knowledge and blessings<br \/>\nThat are ready for us,<br \/>\nIf we have the courage to take.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>They are there for the asking.<br \/>\nThey do not depend on youth or beauty<br \/>\nOr riches or fame.<br \/>\nThey are not related to ambition<br \/>\nOr striving or greed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>They are the pure existence,<br \/>\nThe pure blessings of Our Holy Mother,<br \/>\nAvailable to all who wish to partake,<br \/>\nTo all who wish to join<br \/>\nIn the throngs of people living in Love. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Melody Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Hearts a-flutter, we stand at the precipice. What does the future hold? Are we brave enough To take the leap of faith That propels us into the unknown? With our minds grounded in human existence We are not aware of the storehouse Of love and knowledge and blessings That are ready for us, If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[140,233,317,334],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-poems","tag-blessings","tag-faith","tag-knowledge","tag-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-7Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}