{"id":305,"date":"2021-09-12T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=305"},"modified":"2021-09-12T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T10:58:07","slug":"the-value-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-value-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Silence and gratitude enable us to hear the voice of God who loves us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.&#8221; &#8211; Buddha (563 &#8211; 483 B.C.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;See how nature &#8211; trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence &#8230; we need silence to be able to touch souls.&#8221; &#8211; Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910 &#8211; 1997)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Imagination is more important than knowledge.&#8221; &#8211; Albert Einstien (1979 &#8211; 1955)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels&#8221; &#8211; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 &#8211; 1882)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.&#8221; &#8211; Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, born 1918, South African lawyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must become the change we want to see.&#8221; &#8211; Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.&#8221; &#8211; Marcel Proust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence and gratitude enable us to hear the voice of God who loves us. &#8220;You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.&#8221; &#8211; Buddha (563 &#8211; 483 B.C.) &#8220;See how nature &#8211; trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-value-of-silence\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17,362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}