{"id":353,"date":"2015-08-17T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T23:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/?p=353"},"modified":"2015-08-17T19:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T23:57:30","slug":"the-light-after-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/2015\/08\/17\/the-light-after-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light After Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Borrowed from Brian Johnson&#8217;s Optimizer emails, where HE borrowed it from <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjohnson.me\/philosophers-notes\/the-power-of-your-supermind\/?ref=o\" target=\"_blank\">The Power of Your Supermind<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wow. I love that SO much. Instead of thinking of the work it will take to heal, to change, to grow &#8211; just no that while those things are true &#8211; all you have to do is turn on light to start the process, no matter how long it has been. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354\" alt=\"IMG_2030\" src=\"http:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2030-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2030-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2030-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_2030-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/2015\/08\/17\/the-light-after-darkness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Light After Darkness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3TEOk-5H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcvegan.com\/_JoyOfVeganLiving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}