{"id":3070,"date":"2022-03-28T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2022-03-29T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:54:32","slug":"march-exclusion-twenty-eighth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/3070","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 twenty-eighth day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cCain turns to Evil to obtain what Good denied him, and he does it voluntarily, self-consciously and with malice aforethought. Christ takes a different path. His sojourn in the desert is the dark night of the soul \u2014 a deeply human and universal human experience.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Jordan B Peterson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo tree can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Carl Gustav Jung<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday was really something else, and, if I had to live it repeatedly, I could do much worse. Was the promise of this month\u2019s endeavor fulfilled? Perhaps it even suggests a solution to my quandary of the twenty-third day. If I knew that tomorrow was going to be put on a loop, how would I prepare? How then would I live it? A balance of effort and non-effort? How does one avoid crossing a frontier into excessive introspection? How often should action be diluted with non-action? James emphasized to me the importance of cyclic illumination for seedlings, because a young plant grows more during darkness than it does during the period of light. Similarly, a plant can bend toward the sun only if the cells multiply faster on the opposite side. What can that awareness possibly offer to the contemplative? Is there a meaningful difference between negation and denial? What is the March Ex(clusion) hiding that has yet to be revealed?\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> A tangle of roots, sod, and invasive ivy, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> as the ground is broken for my new backyard berry patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCain turns to Evil to obtain what Good denied him, and he does it voluntarily, self-consciously and with malice aforethought. Christ takes a different path. His sojourn in the desert is the dark night of the soul \u2014 a deeply human and universal human experience.\u201d \u2013 Jordan B Peterson \u201cNo tree can grow to Heaven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,62,40,6,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}