{"id":31171,"date":"2021-03-13T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=31171"},"modified":"2022-01-11T20:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:28:52","slug":"offering-the-most-precious-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2021\/03\/13\/offering-the-most-precious-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Offering the most precious gift."},"content":{"rendered":"
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What<\/span> if the only thing you have to offer, <\/span>is joy?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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What if you don\u2019t have to solve anything?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What if you can leave all questions unanswered (at least for now)?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What if being sincerely and unshakably you is all that is needed?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In a world where people are always looking for fixes and solutions and distractions, coming to rest is a rare commodity.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A few moments of non-thinking.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Just a tiny bit of peace.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The gentle purr of awareness.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When are we ever truly there?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So offering that to someone is the most precious gift.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And being that is the direct invitation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It doesn\u2019t sound spectacular to the mind.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It doesn\u2019t look helpful to the anxious intellect.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It seems way too simple for the conflicted ego.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But if you can offer joy, it\u2019s like offering a truce.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hope.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Space.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lightness.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Inspiration.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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No need for anything<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It changes worlds.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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—<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Photo by @condorito1953, for Unsplash)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What if the only thing you have to offer, is joy? What if you don\u2019t have to solve anything? What if you can leave all questions unanswered (at least for now)? What if being sincerely and unshakably you is all that is needed? In a world where people are always looking for fixes and solutions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31172,"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":[97,117,100,105,113,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171"}],"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=31171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45919,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31171\/revisions\/45919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}