{"id":520,"date":"2010-04-05T19:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-10-30T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:58:22","slug":"gratitude-is-the-road-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude is the Road to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s enlightening when you look closely at it, <strong>the balance between outer paradises and inner bliss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A sunny, warm, comfortable day in the surf is certainly a gift in many ways.<br \/>\nYet it\u2019s how I perceive the outer circumstances INSIDE <strong>that means anything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If unhappy, or ungrateful inside \u2013 there\u2019s no way an external paradise will make me fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>But when I am grateful for the blessings I have been given in my now \u2013 and there are such abundance of blessings to count, and be aware of \u2013 I am in <strong>Paradise inside<\/strong>, and I am free to remain there, come what may.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In that, \u00a0we are all truly free.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-521\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?attachment_id=521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-521\" title=\"fortune-tellers-things\" src=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fortune-tellers-things.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fortune-tellers-things.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fortune-tellers-things-270x202.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fortune-tellers-things-590x442.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>Photo \u00a9\u00a0Marco Mazzella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s enlightening when you look closely at it, the balance between outer paradises and inner bliss. A sunny, warm, comfortable day in the surf is certainly a gift in many ways. Yet it\u2019s how I perceive the outer circumstances INSIDE that means anything. If unhappy, or ungrateful inside \u2013 there\u2019s no way an external paradise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}