{"id":1263,"date":"2026-08-14T00:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/own-your-feelings-to-understand-anothers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:32:29","slug":"own-your-feelings-to-understand-anothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/own-your-feelings-to-understand-anothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Own Your Feelings to Understand Another&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"quote-post-featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/940952_954285434646069_481615490326332189_n.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/940952_954285434646069_481615490326332189_n.webp 460w, https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/940952_954285434646069_481615490326332189_n-300x202.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have to own your own feelings before you can understand another&#8217;s. How can you understand another&#8217;s pain when you won&#8217;t, or are afraid, to understand your own? It is only through recognizing your pain that compassion can be awakened.<\/p>\n<cite>Theodore Tsaousidis<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to own your own feelings before you can understand another&#8217;s. How can you understand another&#8217;s pain when you won&#8217;t, or are afraid, to understand your own? It is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/own-your-feelings-to-understand-anothers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Own Your Feelings to Understand Another&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}