{"id":494,"date":"2023-11-13T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/?p=494"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:11:49","slug":"what-is-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"What is True?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I asked myself, \u201cWhat is True?\u201d<br>And this is what I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various ideas come and go.<br>Many of which lead to plans and decisions.<br>Some of which I do.<br>Not all of which are necessary or helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get lost in many of the ideas.<br>I lose myself.<br>Instead I believe I am the hero of my ideas and feelings,<br>The hero of my journey through life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spend most of my time lost in this way,<br>Almost all of it in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can I do about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop it!<br>I can choose to pause a thought.<br>Yes, I may well return to it,<br>But in that moment I can also return to noticing how it is not to be lost in thought.<br>Which usually is a more peaceful and enjoyable state than being in the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/LGN\/book\/pause.php\">Just Pause<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked myself, \u201cWhat is True?\u201dAnd this is what I wrote: Various ideas come and go.Many of which lead to plans and decisions.Some of which I do.Not all of which are necessary or helpful. I get lost in many of the ideas.I lose myself.Instead I believe I am the hero of my ideas and feelings,The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}