“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he afford to let alone” — Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n
Not the least of which “things” are beliefs, ideals, ought to’s, should haves, fears, and maybe even loves, too. It is good to have thoughts, if for no other reason than to watch them float away like clouds. As the Tao Te Ching suggests, emptiness is useful beyond all material things:<\/p>\n
We mould clay into a pot,\r\nbut it is the emptiness inside\r\nthat makes the vessel useful.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he afford to let alone” — Henry David Thoreau Not the least of which “things” are beliefs, ideals, ought to’s, should haves, fears, and maybe even loves, too. It is good to have thoughts, if for no other reasonContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[116,174,46,18,173,171,175,172],"class_list":["entry","author-tony-brussat","post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-qualia-tropes","tag-fear","tag-meditation","tag-planet","tag-qualia","tag-rich","tag-thoreau","tag-thoughts-as-clouds","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9QShd-wealth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}