{"id":394,"date":"2011-12-20T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeservis.com\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-12-20T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T12:55:35","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/_\/notifications\/emlink?emrecipient=102825995734616002137&amp;emid=CKC38tOxkK0CFYXh3AodIGoAAA&amp;path=%2F108551811075711499995&amp;reexp=CONTROL&amp;dt=1324375085665\" target=\"_blank\">Dalai Lama<\/a><\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikeservis.com\/images\/dalaiLama.png?resize=200%2C200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"9\" vspace=\"9\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalai Lama The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/compassion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SD9H-6m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}