{"id":668,"date":"2021-03-13T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=668"},"modified":"2023-09-25T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:59:45","slug":"find-a-little-light-this-holiday-season-interview-with-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Find a Little Light This Holiday Season- Interview with the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-vp77d3 epjyd6m0\">\n<div class=\"css-1baulvz\">\n<p class=\"css-4z5zii e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Erik Vance<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time class=\"css-129k401 e16638kd0\" datetime=\"2020-11-20T14:53:34-05:00\">November 20, 2020<\/time><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the end of a tough year, spiritual leaders offer some ways to prepare yourself for whatever comes next.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"link-186884da\" class=\"css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40\">Think like a poet.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Hamid Entezam feels especially well-prepared for pandemic life. A practicing Sufi, he is a presenter on a Farsi-language television show about spirituality in Islam called \u201cPartove Noor\u201d (Ray of Light). An important part of Islam, Mr. Entezam said, is perseverance, or sabr in Arabic. Life, he said, is full of suffering and our job is to find the path through it. But that path can be sublime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cYou need to acquire beauty-seeking eyes so you can find beauty in the world. Including in turmoil, tragedies and hardships of life,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is still beauty to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">He said it is that ability that allows poets and artists to recognize and portray the beauty others don\u2019t see. In the same way, there is beauty in your home, friends and co-workers, just waiting to be found.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/20\/well\/mind\/spiritual-guidance-coronavirus.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/20\/well\/mind\/spiritual-guidance-coronavirus.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a tough year, spiritual leaders offer some ways to prepare yourself for whatever comes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}