{"id":489,"date":"2008-10-29T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2008-10-29T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:59:56","slug":"our-circle-of-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/our-circle-of-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"our circle of compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nA human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited \r\nin time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as \r\nsomething separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his \r\nconsciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to \r\nour personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. \r\nOur task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our \r\ncircle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of \r\nnature in its beauty.\r\n                -- Albert Einstein\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/our-circle-of-compassion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353,382],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspiration","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}