{"id":540,"date":"2012-11-27T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/?p=540"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T18:41:51","slug":"the-power-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/quotes\/inspiration\/the-power-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Peace&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to find peace we must first give up our selfish desire for power and control. When we try to control someone else, we enter into a struggle that we cannot possibly win.\u00a0We can choose to spend our time fighting with ourselves and others, but in the end, it will not bring us peace.<\/p>\n<p>Peace is never the result of struggle, it is the result of forgiveness. \u00a0Forgiving others for what they may have done, and forgiving ourselves for what we have failed to do.\u00a0Only then will we find peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n~Jimi Hendrix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to find peace we must first give up our selfish desire for power and control. When we try to control someone else, we enter into a struggle that we cannot possibly win.\u00a0We can choose to spend our time fighting with ourselves and others, but in the end, it50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281,32,34,43,42,33,31,72,282,277,280,283,276,278,279],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-famous-power-of-love-quotes","tag-image-quotes","tag-image-quotes-about-life","tag-image-quotes-about-life-tumblr","tag-image-quotes-and-sayings","tag-image-quotes-for-facebook","tag-image-quotes-to-live-by","tag-inspirational-image-quotes","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-power-of-love","tag-power-of-love-quotes","tag-power-of-love-quotes-and-sayings","tag-power-of-peace","tag-power-of-peace-in-you","tag-power-of-peace-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Power-of-Love-Jimi-Hendrix.jpg?fit=700%2C651&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-8I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}