{"id":41033,"date":"2013-05-11T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=41033"},"modified":"2015-06-02T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:35:16","slug":"to-be-great-you-have-to-be-willing-to-be-mocked-hated-and-misunderstood-i-consider-it-an-initiation-an-honor-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/to-be-great-you-have-to-be-willing-to-be-mocked-hated-and-misunderstood-i-consider-it-an-initiation-an-honor-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated and misunderstood. I consider it an initiation, an honor &#038; blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated and misunderstood. Stay Strong. Small minds can\u2019t comprehend big spirits.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpiritScienceAndMetaphysics\">Spirit Science and Metaphysics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I myself consider it an initiation, an honor and a blessing when it happens. \u00a0Some say we undergo a crucifixion in every lifetime. \u00a0Our response to it balances karmic debt and determines how long we keep ourselves on the cross. \u00a0It\u2019s the same as not coming to the altar to pray, expecting to receive fully, if we\u2019ve not first forgiven everyone and everything. \u00a0The initiation is in being mocked, hated and misunderstood. \u00a0We run the gauntlet of the initiation by how we respond and react. The honor and blessing of it is being given an opportunity to resolve the past, do things differently and make a clean start.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/to-be-great-you-have-to-be-willing-to-be-mocked-hated-and-misunderstood-i-consider-it-an-initiation-an-honor-blessing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated and misunderstood. 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Small minds can\u2019t comprehend big spirits.\u00a0\u00a0Spirit Science and Metaphysics I myself consider it an initiation, an honor and a blessing when it happens. \u00a0Some say we undergo a crucifixion in every lifetime. \u00a0Our response to it balances karmic debt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41034,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41033\/revisions\/41034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}