{"id":1578,"date":"2017-07-13T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T03:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2017-07-13T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T03:36:34","slug":"ahhh-satori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2017\/07\/ahhh-satori\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahhh.  Satori."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I come across a word that lights me up because it expresses something perfectly.\u00a0 My word for the day is <em>satori<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 I needed it.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered the word in <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sSoDlu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s book &#8211; A New Earth &#8211; Awakening to Your Life&#8217;s Purpose<\/a> &#8211; on page 177.\u00a0 It immediately resonated with me.\u00a0 I had to stop and write it down in my fat little notebook of new words.<\/p>\n<p>Satori: &#8220;A zen word for a moment of presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes, and their reflection in the body as emotion.\u00a0 It is the arising of inner spaciousness where before there was the clutter of thought and the turmoil of emotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Inner spaciousness replacing clutter of thought and turmoil of emotion<\/em>.\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you, too, find space for satori today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1583\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2017\/07\/ahhh-satori\/dsc_0017\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1583\" class=\"wp-image-1583 \" src=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0017-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Chain O Lakes view from hiking trail\" width=\"506\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0017-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0017-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0017-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of lake from Chain O Lakes State Park hiking trail July 2017<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 316px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I come across a word that lights me up because it expresses something perfectly.\u00a0 My word for the day is satori.\u00a0\u00a0 I needed it. I discovered the word in Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s book &#8211; A New Earth &#8211; Awakening to Your Life&#8217;s Purpose &#8211; on page 177.\u00a0 It immediately resonated with me.\u00a0 I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,73,55,22],"tags":[15,423,424,422],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}