{"id":4105,"date":"2015-05-11T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2015-05-10T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:59:56","slug":"the-empty-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/05\/the-empty-treasure.html","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To weigh the value of what this world can reward us with, we need only remove the scales from our eyes, for were we willing to measure how many times we have fallen victim to a world that promises us victory but that leaves us a victim, then we would know just how hollow is the hope of finding treasure in a bottomless basket.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone with ears to hear, there is but one question and one answer: will we wait patiently for a single moment of relationship with what is eternal and real\u2014where, with the touch of something timeless, all the moments of our life are forever changed? Otherwise we waste the few moments of our life chasing the pleasure of an imagined time to come that forever recedes from our grasp in the same instant that we reach for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourimmortalself.com\/special\/beliefnet\">www.YourImmortalSelf.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To weigh the value of what this world can reward us with, we need only remove the scales from our eyes, for were we willing to measure how many times we have fallen victim to a world that promises us victory but that leaves us a victim, then we would know just how hollow is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,514],"tags":[2257,2255,70,1842,2256,336],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enlightenment-self-realization","category-wholeness-happiness","tag-chasing-pleasures","tag-empty-pleasures","tag-happiness","tag-relationship-with-the-divine","tag-timeless-values","tag-unhappiness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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