{"id":18281,"date":"2012-02-08T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=18281"},"modified":"2012-02-08T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T17:55:17","slug":"one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"One purpose of a spiritual practice is to excavate your false gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spiritual life is not about finding ways to feel good. \u00a0It&#8217;s not about how to get guidance on how to stay safe in this world. \u00a0A spiritual life means that you excavate your false gods, fears, and illusions that hold you prisoner in this world. \u00a0You face these false powers and free yourself from them. \u00a0Facing personal myths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith \u00a0and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself, you&#8217;re changing the Universe. \u00a0Your soul is a compass. \u00a0Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life&#8217;s direction. \u00a0 \u00a0Caroline Myss<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=One purpose of a spiritual practice is to excavate your false gods&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=One%20purpose%20of%20a%20spiritual%20practice%20is%20to%20excavate%20your%20false%20gods&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/one-purpose-of-a-spiritual-practice-is-to-excavate-your-false-gods\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spiritual life is not about finding ways to feel good. \u00a0It&#8217;s not about how to get guidance on how to stay safe in this world. \u00a0A spiritual life means that you excavate your false gods, fears, and illusions that hold you prisoner in this world. \u00a0You face these false powers and free yourself from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18282,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281\/revisions\/18282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}