{"id":9921,"date":"2019-06-15T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:13:47","slug":"how-to-find-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2019\/06\/15\/how-to-find-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thoughts \u2014 and feelings triggered by thoughts \u2014 are mutable and impermanent, and yet because we humans incorrectly identify our <em>being<\/em> with our <em>thinking<\/em>, we construct a false notion of ourselves out of ideas and memories that have no actual substance. No wonder the ego is called \u201cthe false self.\u201d The false self \u2014 the thinking mind \u2014 is continuously talking to itself, disturbing itself, even lying to itself. Reimagining the past or fantasizing about the future. Setting up expectations that aren\u2019t met, then casting judgment and blame. Struggling every step of the way to stop struggling. Naturally, it doesn\u2019t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Karen Maezen Miller, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/how-do-i-put-my-mind-to-rest\/\">How to Look at a Wall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thoughts \u2014 and feelings triggered by thoughts \u2014 are mutable and impermanent, and yet because we humans incorrectly identify our being with our thinking, we construct a false notion of ourselves out of ideas and memories that have no actual substance. No wonder the ego is called \u201cthe false self.\u201d The false self \u2014 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,30],"tags":[285,224,286,287,260,284,283,245],"class_list":["post-9921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-quotes","tag-being","tag-buddhism","tag-emotions","tag-feelings","tag-practice","tag-thinking","tag-thoughts","tag-zen"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10485,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}