{"id":39918,"date":"2015-09-14T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=39918"},"modified":"2015-09-14T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:46:48","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-will-everything-be-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-will-everything-be-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Will Everything Be OK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"This<\/a><\/p>\n

Inspiration comes in many forms, and, if you\u2019re like our artists,<\/a> you may look to a famous phrase or line of vital verse to help keep you positive. But sometimes, such pep talks can feel less than genuine. When you feel that an obvious dose of perky poetry just won\u2019t cut it, consider this familiar philosophical phrase: this too shall pass.<\/em><\/p>\n

Say it aloud a few times, and you may feel a certain sense of detached calm. It\u2019s like a Zen version of \u201cgo with the flow,\u201d meaning that no matter how bad things get, they\u2019re bound to turn around because all of existence is in flux. Whoa\u2026heavy, right? But wait a minute\u2014it gets heavier. When you really think about it, the phrase also means that no matter how good<\/em> things are, they\u2019ll change for the worse. So much for positive inspiration!<\/p>\n

The phrase can be traced back to the Persian Sufi poets, and has since been credited to a nebulous \u201cEastern\u201d king, who asked his court to provide a phrase that would smooth everything out, making him feel better when he was down, and bringing him down a notch when he was manic. Whether or not this fable has any basis in fact, the \u201cEastern\u201d associations are probably thanks to the tenets of Buddhist enlightenment, which seeks release from the perceived, material world and the cycle of existence. In other words, it\u2019s the realization that all of this stuff isn\u2019t important, because the only constant is change\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

And if that\u2019s still too heavy for your taste, try this exuberant, marching band setting of the sentiment<\/a> and turn that frown upside down!<\/p>\n

This Too Shall Pass Paperweight<\/a> | $36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it’s not okay, it’s not the end. Or is it the other way around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":39922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39924,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918\/revisions\/39924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}