{"id":326,"date":"2006-10-28T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-07-25T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T18:56:08","slug":"life-is-simple-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/2006\/10\/28\/life-is-simple-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is simple (again)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Ensler is the playwright of The Vagina Monologues and The Good Body and founder of the global movement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vday.org\/\">V-Day<\/a>, which is working to end violence against women and girls. In a presentation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED2004<\/a> she <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4831562977740491970\">mentioned<\/a> a fundamental truth that immediately made my life so much easier: <i>when we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.<\/i> In other words: if I give the world what I had wanted to be there &#8211; it will give me happyness (because, speaking along the lines of Tony Robbins who was also at TED, a purpose outside oneself that gives a happy moment or life to another is a gratification of a level one can not get from any other method).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIf I work to improve the world and remain approachable for the questioning yough + eventually help establish the wide-spread availability of brain-based education, I will only need to be able to eat to be truely happy.<\/p>\n<p>Could this be my new mission statement for my life? Her eis my &#8220;old&#8221; one:<\/p>\n<p>Bringing about balanced success that leads to and supports growth in the four success areas &#8211; mental, spiritual, physical and financial &#8211; through creating choices and understanding their impact and concequences (on and for myself and those around me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Ensler is the playwright of The Vagina Monologues and The Good Body and founder of the global movement V-Day, which is working to end violence against women and girls. In a presentation from TED2004 she mentioned a fundamental truth that immediately made my life so much easier: when we give in the world what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/Pallieter.org\/www8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}