{"id":9198,"date":"2012-11-22T05:06:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/gratitude-a-thanksgiving-homily-3\/"},"modified":"2012-11-22T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T05:06:26","slug":"gratitude-a-thanksgiving-homily-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/gratitude-a-thanksgiving-homily-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude: A Thanksgiving Homily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We need spiritual exercises just as we need physical, mental, and moral exercises. A good spiritual exercise, and easy to boot, is daily recollection of just how good one has it, just how rich and full one&#39;s life is, just how much is going right despite annoyances and setbacks which for the most part are so petty as not to merit consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Start with the physical side of your life. You slept well, and a beautiful new day is dawning. Your breath comes easy, your intestines are in order. Your mind is clear, and so are your eyes. Move every moving part of your body and note how wonderfully it works, without any pain to speak of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Brew up some java and enjoy its rich taste, all the while rejoicing over the regularity of nature that allows the water to boil one more time, at the same temperature, and the caffeine to be absorbed once more by those greedy intercranial receptors that activate the adrenalin that makes you eager to grab a notebook and jot down all the new ideas that are beginning to percolate up from who knows where.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Finished with your body, move to your mind and its wonderful workings. Then to the house and its appliances including your trusty old computer that reliably, day after day, connects you to the sphere of <em>Nous<\/em>, the <em>noosphere<\/em>, to hijack a term of Teilhard de Chardin. And don&#39;t forget the country that allows you to live your own kind of life in your own kind of way and say and write whatever you think in peace and safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A quotidian enactment of something like the foregoing meditation should do wonders for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need spiritual exercises just as we need physical, mental, and moral exercises. A good spiritual exercise, and easy to boot, is daily recollection of just how good one has it, just how rich and full one&#39;s life is, just how much is going right despite annoyances and setbacks which for the most part are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/gratitude-a-thanksgiving-homily-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gratitude: A Thanksgiving Homily&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,72,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-sage-advice","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}