{"id":608,"date":"2022-07-31T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/?page_id=608"},"modified":"2022-07-31T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:09:57","slug":"a-solitary-manual","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/a-solitary-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solitary Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day One<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I.\u00a0 Morning Ritual of Greeting the Day<\/strong>
\nBodily positions described on page 1.<\/p>\n

II. Ritual<\/strong>\u00a0of Silence<\/strong>
\nRead the brief meditation reading for the day and then sit in silence.<\/p>\n

Just resting in the very nature of your being.\u00a0 Not going anywhere.\u00a0 Not doing anything.\u00a0 Not attaining anything.\u00a0 You are already everything you may hope to attain, so no effort of the will is necessary.\u00a0 You are already it.\u00a0 It is already here.\u00a0 Here is already everywhere, and now is already always.\u00a0 There is no purpose other than to be awake to what is actually so.<\/p>\n

III. Ritual of Prayer<\/strong>
\nRead the psalm, write the number of the psalm (e.g., Psalm 1), the date, then write\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0psalm, your prayer, your translation in the space below.
\nPsalm # Date:<\/p>\n

For a copy of the complete 30-day manual send $8 to Joyce Marshall;
\n3578 N. State Highway 78; Bonham, TX 75418.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A new moon teaches gradualness
\nand deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly.\u00a0 Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.<\/p>\n

What nine months of attention does for an embryo, forty early morning will do for your gradually growing wholeness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– Rumi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day One I.\u00a0 Morning Ritual of Greeting the Day Bodily positions described on page 1. II. Ritual\u00a0of Silence Read the brief meditation reading for the day and then sit in silence. Just resting in the very nature of your being.\u00a0 Not going anywhere.\u00a0 Not doing anything.\u00a0 Not attaining anything.\u00a0 You are already everything you may … Continue reading A Solitary Manual<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-608","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}