{"id":237,"date":"2013-11-12T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2014-01-14T08:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T08:10:53","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Quote of the Month<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">On War . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>Lost Horizon<\/i>, 1937 film (screenplay by Robert Riskin from novel by James Hilton)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">High Lama: It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La.\u00a0 It came to me in a vision, long, long ago.\u00a0 I saw all the nations strengthening, not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy.\u00a0 I saw the machine power multiplying, until a single weaponed man might match a whole army.\u00a0 I foresaw a time when man, exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure, would be domed to destruction.\u00a0 This vision was so vivid and so moving, that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and of culture that I could, and preserve them here, against the doom toward which the world is rushing.\u00a0 Look at the world today.\u00a0 Is there anything more pitiful?\u00a0 What madness there is!\u00a0 What blindness!\u00a0 What unintelligent leadership!\u00a0 A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality.\u00a0 A time must come my friend, when this orgy will spend itself.\u00a0 When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. . . For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life.\u00a0 And it is our hope that they may find it here.\u00a0 For here, we shall be with . . . a way of life based on one simple rule: BE KIND!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If you would like to submit your favorite quote, please send to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"mailto:Quotes@TempleoftheGoddess.org?subject=Quotes\">Quotes@TempleoftheGoddess.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote of the Month<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On War . . .<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lost Horizon, 1937 film (screenplay by Robert Riskin from novel by James Hilton)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>High Lama: It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La.\u00a0 It came to me in a vision, long, long ago.\u00a0 I saw all the nations strengthening, not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy.\u00a0 I saw the machine power multiplying, until a single weaponed man might match a whole army.\u00a0 I foresaw a time when man, exalting in the technique &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.templeofthegoddess.org\/temple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}