For whatever reason, today a remembered parable came to me and seemed worthy of sharing.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n 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 The man groped around on the floor in the darkness for a long time, and couldn’t find his keys.\u00a0\u00a0 Then he noticed that way down the block, a streetlight was on!<\/p>\n So he left his house, went down the street, and started looking for his keys under the streetlight.<\/p>\n After a while, his neighbor saw him, and went over to see if he could help.\u00a0\u00a0 “What’s wrong?”<\/p>\n “I dropped my keys.”<\/p>\n “Where did you drop them?”<\/p>\n “In my living room.”<\/p>\n “Then why are you looking for them under this streetlight?”<\/p>\n “Because the light’s so much better out here!<\/p>\n And the point is:\u00a0\u00a0 What you need is inside you … right now.<\/p>\n Why do you spend so much time looking for it somewhere else?<\/p>\n …<\/span><\/p>\n There is no way to happiness.- Happiness is the way<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For whatever reason, today a remembered parable came to me and seemed worthy of sharing.<\/p>\n 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":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":426,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? He was beckoned irresistibly by the sea with all of its hidden treasures. Surveying has wooed surveyors for centuries. We surveyors are also explorers, discoverers and pioneers.","rel":"","context":"In "History\/Politics"","block_context":{"text":"History\/Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Columbus seduced by the sea.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/columbus-thinking-117x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_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}]}}
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