{"id":426,"date":"2011-06-04T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-06-04T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T15:47:46","slug":"hapiness-is-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/04\/hapiness-is-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, today a remembered parable came to me and seemed worthy of sharing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: perpetua,times new roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<hr size=\"6\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p>Dr. Wayne Dyer, popular author and speaker, tells the story of the man who dropped his keys in his living room during a power failure.<\/p>\n<p>The man groped around on the floor in the darkness for a long time, and couldn&#8217;t find his keys.\u00a0\u00a0 Then he noticed that way down the block, a streetlight was on!<\/p>\n<p>So he left his house, went down the street, and started looking for his keys under the streetlight.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, his neighbor saw him, and went over to see if he could help.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dropped my keys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where did you drop them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my living room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then why are you looking for them under this streetlight?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the light&#8217;s so much better out here!<\/p>\n<hr size=\"6\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p>And the point is:\u00a0\u00a0 What you need is inside you &#8230; right now.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you spend so much time looking for it somewhere else?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: georgia,times new roman; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no way to happiness.- <em>Happiness is the way<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, today a remembered parable came to me and seemed worthy of sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wayne Dyer, popular author and speaker, tells the story of the man who dropped his keys in his living room during a power failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalphilosophical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-6S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}