{"id":2359,"date":"2019-01-04T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2019-01-05T02:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T02:19:53","slug":"on-the-meaning-of-the-wonder-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"On the Meaning and Wonder of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. \u2013 Jean-Paul Sarte<\/li>\n<li>This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what&#8217;s so. \u2013 Werner Erhard<\/li>\n<li>The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. \u2013 Walker Percy<\/li>\n<li>The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth. \u2013 Yuan-sou<\/li>\n<li>In my hut this spring, there is nothing &#8212; there is everything! \u2013 Sodo<\/li>\n<li>The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. \u2013 Henry Miller<\/li>\n<li>I am a part of all that I have met. \u2013 Alfred Lord Tennyson<\/li>\n<li>Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. \u2013 Tao Te Ching<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. \u2013 Wallace Stevens<\/li>\n<li>How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. \u2013 Antoine de Saint-Exupery<\/li>\n<li>Hide your body in the Big Dipper. \u2013 Zen saying<\/li>\n<li>Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. \u2013 Jean-Paul Sarte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. \u2013 Jean-Paul Sarte This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what&#8217;s so. \u2013 Werner Erhard The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10182,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}