{"id":6852,"date":"2011-11-02T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:16","slug":"afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/11\/02\/afterthought\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterthought"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In asserting: God* exists, we merely bring down overpowering reality to the level of thought. Our belief is but an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>The transition from obliviousness to an awareness of God, is not a leap over a missing link in a syllogism but a retreat, giving up premises rather than adding one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Abraham Joshua Heschel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*or Brahman, Nirvana, Ground of Being, Absolute, whatever word stands for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In asserting: God* exists, we merely bring down overpowering reality to the level of thought. Our belief is but an afterthought. The transition from obliviousness to an awareness of God, is not a leap over a missing link in a syllogism but a retreat, giving up premises rather than adding one. &#8211;Abraham Joshua Heschel *or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,28,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11877,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}