{"id":4922,"date":"2016-08-10T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2016-08-09T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T23:26:48","slug":"true-cost-timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2016\/08\/true-cost-timeless.html","title":{"rendered":"The True Cost of Being Timeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something that the world around us, as well as most of the parts within us have no interest in hearing: just because we are able to buy something \u2014 go somewhere, or do whatever is our pleasure \u2014 as, and when we feel like it \u2014 doesn&#8217;t mean that we should.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you may ask, &#8220;But why not pursue what is in my power to give to myself? After all, what better thing can I do with my time on this earth than to do whatever I can to please myself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the answer is: learn (how) to use your time to &#8220;buy&#8221; what is Timeless, because regardless how seemingly real or refined some pleasure or possession may feel to the self that covets it . . . there is nothing timeless about it . . . or the world of time in which both it \u2014 and we \u2014 appear only to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something that the world around us, as well as most of the parts within us have no interest in hearing: just because we are able to buy something \u2014 go somewhere, or do whatever is our pleasure \u2014 as, and when we feel like it \u2014 doesn&#8217;t mean that we should. 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