{"id":11018,"date":"2014-02-14T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2014-02-13T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T05:59:13","slug":"never-felt-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2014\/02\/14\/never-felt-need\/","title":{"rendered":"I have never felt the need.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12066103805_e7bd078edc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11019\" alt=\"12066103805_e7bd078edc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12066103805_e7bd078edc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12066103805_e7bd078edc.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12066103805_e7bd078edc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12066103805_e7bd078edc-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><em>Photo taken in Tongeren, Belgium.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Loved this thought, on being satisfied with this world, and not needing an afterlife (or a God)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.\u00a0 I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others&#8211;why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion&#8230;but that is not my business.\u00a0 We are all different, I suppose.\u00a0 All I ever wanted to know was this world.\u00a0 I can say now, as I reach my end, that I know quite a bit more of it than when I arrived.\u00a0 Moreover, my little bit of knowledge has been added to all the other accumulated knowledge of history&#8211;added to the great library, as it were.\u00a0 That is no small feat, sir.\u00a0 Anyone who can say such a thing has lived a fortunate life.<\/p>\n<p>~Alma Whittaker in _The Signature of All Things_<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo taken in Tongeren, Belgium. &nbsp; Loved this thought, on being satisfied with this world, and not needing an afterlife (or a God)&#8230; You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.\u00a0 I have wondered why it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-deep-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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