{"id":18215,"date":"2023-10-18T06:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/?p=18215"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:26:12","slug":"words-of-wisdom-for-october-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/words-of-wisdom-for-october-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom for October 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"564\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; \">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Dear Friends:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\" width=\"550\">\n<td>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditationhappieratwork.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; maxwidth: 550px;\" width=\"550\" alt=\"\">  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">&#8220;Stuckness&#8221; is simply reluctance to take the next small step. Cut your next step in half. Then cut each half in half. Make the next step as small as you can. Then TAKE IT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Martha Beck<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align:center;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/micah-affiliates.com\/click.php?c=1&#038;m=58685\" title=\"Mini Mindfulness Break\">Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks<\/a>  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style='font-size=16px; font-weight:bold; text-align:center'>  <a href='https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/offer-what-you-can' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener\">Click here to <i>offer what you can<\/i> for eBooks and Guided Mediations!<\/a>  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center' style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-align:center;\">Here&#8217;s an interesting post from Meditation Practices:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; padding: 8px; text-align:center;\">\n<td>  <a href=\"http:\/\/micah-affiliates.com\/click.php?c=9&#038;i=58685&#038;p=10794\" title=\"Listening to Your Body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listening to Your Body<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align:top;\">\n<td style=\"text-align:left; font-family:'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/micah-affiliates.com\/click.php?c=9&#038;i=58685&#038;p=10794\" title=\"Listening to Your Body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Don_Miguel_Ruiz-110x110.jpg\" style=\"float:left; margin:10px; width:110; height:110\" align=\"left\" width=\"110px\" alt=\"\"><\/a>Last weekend, I spent a long weekend with my wife and eight other friends in beautiful Carmel, California. Most of us get together on a monthly basis to meditate and dine together for a shabbos celebration.  One of the main topics we talked about was listening to your body becaus &#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>\n<p width='360px' style='display: block; width: 360px; padding: 18px 0; border: 1px solid #BCBCBC; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; background: #146793; color: #fff; font-size:22px; font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;'> <a href='http:\/\/micah-affiliates.com\/click.php?c=9&#038;i=58685&#038;p=10794' title='Listening to Your Body' target='_blank' style='color:#FFFFFF;' rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>  <!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends: &#8220;Stuckness&#8221; is simply reluctance to take the next small step. Cut your next step in half. Then cut each half in half. Make the next step as small as you can. Then TAKE IT. &#8211; Martha Beck Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4752],"tags":[417],"class_list":["post-18215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wow","tag-words-of-wisdom","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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