{"id":169,"date":"2015-10-03T22:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru2015\/?p=169"},"modified":"2015-10-10T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T23:37:10","slug":"move-in-sep-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/2015\/10\/03\/move-in-sep-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVE IN — NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMPLAINT OR GRATITUDE… IT IS UP TO OURSELVES
\nHazrat Inayat Khan, a Sufi musician and mystic writes: \u201cThere are 2 attitudes, which divide people into 2 sections.
\nThe one is an ever-complaining attitude, and the other is an ever-smiling attitude. Life is the same; call it good, call it bad;
\nit is what it is, it cannot be otherwise.\u2028A person complains in order to get the sympathy of others and
\nto show them his good points, sometimes in order to show himself as more just, more intelligent, and also in the right. He complains about everything, about his health, about those he loves and much more about those he hates. He complains from morning till evening. It can increase to such an extent that the weather is not good and the air is not good, and the atmosphere\u2028is not good. He is against both earth and sky, and everything everybody does is wrong. Until it reaches the stage where man dislikes himself.\u2028In this way he grows to be against others, against conditions,\u2028and in the end against himself.\u2028He is his own worst enemy.
\nBesides, magnetism is the need of every soul; the lack of it makes life burdensome. The tendency of seeing wrong in everything robs one to a great extent of that magnetism which is needed very much in life.\u2028For the nature of life is such that naturally the multitude only accepts those who come to it with the power of magnetism, and casts out everyone else. But the way out is to look at the bright side of it.\u2028The attitude of looking at everything with a smile is the sign of a saintly soul. A smile given to a friend, a smile given even to an enemy\u2028will win him over in the end; for this is the key to the heart of man.\u2028As the sunshine from without lights the whole world, so the sunshine from within, would illuminate the whole life, in spite of all seeming wrongs and in spite of all limitations.\u2028One can begin to learn to smile by appreciating every little good thing that comes in one\u2019s way through life. Be not troubled too much about unnecessary things in life, which gives nothing but displeasure\u2028In this way, man develops gratefulness in his nature, and expresses it\u2028in his thought, speech, and action, as an exquisite form of beauty\u201d<\/p>\n

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JOKE<\/p>\n

A great Zen master entered the hall where all the disciples had gathered for the evening meditation and said:
\n\u201cthere is good news tonight and bad news. First the bad news: there is no good news.
\nNow the good news: you dont have to listen to the bad news\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COMPLAINT OR GRATITUDE… IT IS UP TO OURSELVES Hazrat Inayat Khan, a Sufi musician and mystic writes: \u201cThere are 2 attitudes, which divide people into 2 sections. The one is an ever-complaining attitude, and the other is an ever-smiling attitude. Life is the same; call it good, call it bad; it is what it is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gurdjieff-dances.com\/ruru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}