{"id":1766,"date":"2017-09-20T03:59:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2017-09-20T03:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:59:49","slug":"love-is-an-act-of-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1766","title":{"rendered":"Love is an act of will!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journey of the love classes by far has been an eye-opener for me since I was unaware of the fact that love too demands discipline. Till now, I believed that when a person is in love, he\/she gives all of the world to the beloved. Least did I know that it is accompanied by self-sacrifice in most of the cases.<\/p>\n<p>Falling in love doesn&#8217;t happen all at once. It indeed is a process called &#8216;cathexis&#8217; comprising of attraction, investment and commitment. Being with your beloved despite the flaws in him\/her. Choosing to live together because you want to. Not that you need to. Love is acceptance. It is breaking off all boundaries to nurture your as well as your beloved&#8217;s spiritual growth. Love is all about being happy and being you. Love involves courage and risk. Risk of losing. Risk of independence. Of commitment. Confrontation. And hence, it requires discipline.<\/p>\n<p>The road is yet to be travelled further&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journey of the love classes by far has been an eye-opener for me since I was unaware of the fact that love too demands discipline. Till now, I believed that when a person is in love, he\/she gives all of the world to the beloved. Least did I know that it is accompanied by self-sacrifice in most of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}