{"id":147,"date":"2010-11-18T12:19:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2010\/11\/around-you-lies-a-universe-whose-center-you-are.html"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:19:50","slug":"around-you-lies-a-universe-whose-center-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2010\/11\/around-you-lies-a-universe-whose-center-you-are.html","title":{"rendered":"Around you lies a universe whose center you are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/dream_gates\/Thomas%20Mann%20in%20Nida.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Mann in Nida.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/Thomas Mann in Nida-thumb-340x216-19261.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"216\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>A thought for today from Thomas Mann:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"UIIntentionalStory_Message\"><span class=\"UIStory_Message\"><i>The world has many centers, one for each created being, and about each one it lies in its own circle&#8230;About you lies a universe whose center I am not but you are&#8230;.Our universes are not so far from each other that they do not touch&#8230;God has interwoven them deep into each other<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"UIStory_Message\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"UIStory_Message\">The voice is that of Joseph, speaking in Mann&#8217;s novel <i>Joseph in Egypt. <\/i>The book was part of my travel reading when&nbsp;I visited Nida, the resort on the Neringa, the spit of land with amazingly high sand dunes that shelters the coast of Lithuania from the wild Baltic. Mann wrote much of his Joseph trilogy at his summer cottage here.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"UIStory_Message\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"UIStory_Message\">The novelist states, elegantly and provocatively, something that seems me to be incontrovertible, though we often fail to recognize it. We are each the center of our own universe, and yet those universes interweave.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><span class=\"UIStory_Message\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought for today from Thomas Mann: The world has many centers, one for each created being, and about each one it lies in its own circle&#8230;About you lies a universe whose center I am not but you are&#8230;.Our universes are not so far from each other that they do not touch&#8230;God has interwoven them&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conscious-living"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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