{"id":30513,"date":"2020-01-03T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=30513"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T11:37:21","slug":"coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2020\/01\/03\/coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming home."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Do NOT follow your thoughts.<\/h3>\n<p>Just stay here.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts are only trying to seduce you into leaving what\u2019s so blatantly obvious.<\/p>\n<p>They create all the distraction and the pain and then trick you into following them for the solution.<\/p>\n<p>They promise to guide you to a place of love and contentment, yet only take you away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts are like sirens that sing to the weary traveler.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Follow us and we will bring you peace!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Entertain us and we will help you reach the next level!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Chew on me and my sweet sounding friends and we will show you who you are!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They are so clever, so enticing.<\/p>\n<p>And SO full of shit.<\/p>\n<p>Because no thought can bring you to where and WHAT you already are.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no use searching for what was never lost in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It \u00eds actually very simple.<\/p>\n<p>Stay here, stay silent and empty and curious and relaxed, and smile at all the clever attempts to take you away from this moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yeah but\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sure, of course, great, just one more video\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But how about responsibility, and goals, and the future!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Let the sirens sing, just don&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n<p>Let them be, let it pass.<\/p>\n<p>There you go:<\/p>\n<p>This is home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do NOT follow your thoughts. Just stay here. Thoughts are only trying to seduce you into leaving what\u2019s so blatantly obvious. They create all the distraction and the pain and then trick you into following them for the solution. They promise to guide you to a place of love and contentment, yet only take you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,105,116,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30993,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30513\/revisions\/30993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}