{"id":692,"date":"2010-02-20T05:09:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=692"},"modified":"2010-02-20T05:09:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T09:09:28","slug":"the-spiritual-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritual Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/before-6-am-daria.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-691 aligncenter\" title=\"before-6-am-daria\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/before-6-am-daria.jpg\" alt=\"med\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/before-6-am-daria.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/before-6-am-daria-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is better to meditate in the heart than in the mind. The mind is like Times Square on New Year&#8217;s Eve; the heart is like a lonely cave in the Himalayas. If you meditate in the mind, you will be able to meditate for perhaps five minutes; and out of that five minutes, for one minute you may meditate powerfully. After that you will feel your whole head getting tense. First you get joy and satisfaction; then you may feel a barren desert. But if you meditate in the heart, you acquire the capacity to identify yourself with the joy and satisfaction that you get, and then it becomes permanently yours.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy, Wings of Joy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/tv\/128\">The Heart Lotus<\/a> &#8211; Meditation Silence exercise at Sri Chinmoy TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is better to meditate in the heart than in the mind. The mind is like Times Square on New Year&#8217;s Eve; the heart is like a lonely cave in the Himalayas. If you meditate in the mind, you will be able to meditate for perhaps five minutes; and out of that five minutes, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Spiritual Heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}