{"id":1214,"date":"2009-02-26T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:22:52","slug":"a-living-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/a-living-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"A Living Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1233\" title=\"Kuan Yin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kwanyinweb62.jpg\" alt=\"Kuan Yin\" width=\"475\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kwanyinweb62.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kwanyinweb62-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kwanyinweb62-140x170.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 Collage above was created using Painter IX and Photoshop.The photograph is of one of my favorite Kuan Yin statues,\u00a0 I decided to make it the focal point of my digital collage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many say that Kuan Yin, as the goddess of compassion, evokes the softer side of human nature&#8211;the innate softness and unconditional love that counterbalances the drive for competition and dominance.&#8221; &#8211; Colleen O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found this wonderful Living Guide tucked away in my file cabinet and wanted to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p><strong> A Living Guide<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Complement three people every day.<\/li>\n<li> Watch a sunrise at least once a year.<\/li>\n<li> Be the first to say, &#8220;Hello.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> Live beneath your means.<\/li>\n<li> Treat everyone like you want to be treated.<\/li>\n<li> Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen.<\/li>\n<li> Forget the Joneses.<\/li>\n<li> Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all he has.<\/li>\n<li> Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.<\/li>\n<li> Be tough-minded but tenderhearted.<\/li>\n<li> Be kinder than necessary.<\/li>\n<li> Don&#8217;t forget, a person&#8217;s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.<\/li>\n<li> Keep your promises.<\/li>\n<li> Learn to show cheerfulness, even when you don&#8217;t feel like it.<\/li>\n<li> Remember that overnight success usually takes about fifteen years.<\/li>\n<li> Leave everything better than you found it.<\/li>\n<li> Remember that winners do what losers don&#8217;t want to do.<\/li>\n<li> When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone&#8217;s day.<\/li>\n<li> Don&#8217;t rain on other people&#8217;s parades.<\/li>\n<li> Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love him or her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Author Unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 Collage above was created using Painter IX and Photoshop.The photograph is of one of my favorite Kuan Yin statues,\u00a0 I decided to make it the focal point of my digital collage. &#8220;Many say that Kuan Yin, as the goddess of compassion, evokes the softer side of human nature&#8211;the innate softness and unconditional love that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[624,19],"tags":[316,153,247,317,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}