{"id":841,"date":"2010-08-23T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-08-23T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:38:00","slug":"the-jewels-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"The Jewels of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new collection of Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s writings <em>called The Jewels of Happiness <\/em>is to be published &#8211; the book touches on themes such as inspired living, inner peace and creating inner joy.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewels of Happiness is published by Watkins and includes a collection of poems, aphorisms and writings with wisdom for living a more peaceful and joyful life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jewels-happiness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-842\" title=\"jewels-happiness\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jewels-happiness.jpg\" alt=\"jewels happiness\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jewels-happiness.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/jewels-happiness-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy (1)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joy, spontaneity and self-giving always go together. If one has a  joyful heart, that means that one possesses spontaneity or a spontaneous  heart and also that one is self-giving. Or we can say that self-giving  is the hyphen, the connecting link, between joy and spontaneity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness<\/p>\n<p>The Jewels of Happiness will be on sale from September 7th. In the forward to the book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153These sweet gems of wisdom by my dear friend Sri Chinmoy are timeless truths full of encouragement, love and goodness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new collection of Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s writings called The Jewels of Happiness is to be published &#8211; the book touches on themes such as inspired living, inner peace and creating inner joy. The Jewels of Happiness is published by Watkins and includes a collection of poems, aphorisms and writings with wisdom for living a more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Jewels of Happiness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}