{"id":64,"date":"2024-01-15T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:41:31","slug":"you-are-never-alone-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/you-are-never-alone-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"You are Never Alone in Nature~"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-pale-pink-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Deep in the Quiet Wood <\/strong>\n<strong>by James Weldon Johnson<\/strong>--1871-1938\n<strong>Are you bowed down in Heart?\nDo you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life?\nThen come away, come to the peaceful wood.\nHere bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now,\nFrom the palpitating solitude\nDo you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains?\nThey are above, around, within you, everywhere.\nSilently listen! Clear, and still more clear, they come.\nThey bubble up in rippling notes, and swell in singing tones.\nNow let your soul run the whole gamut of the wondrous scale\nUntil, responsive to the tonic chord, \nIt touches the diapason* of God's grand cathedral organ,\nFilling earth for you with heavenly peace\nAnd holy harmonies.\n*Oxford Dictionary: <em>a grand swelling burst of harmony<\/em>.<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0cf8ebe3d9a0342c2ef87ede14464919\"><strong><em>May your thorns of suffering become flowers~<\/em><\/strong><br>from Verdi's Opera <em>Simone Bocanegra<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f843aa8a2d551624e6b607555208b32f\">Once there was a child made of salt.<br>So she set out on a long journey in pursuit of understanding.<br>Finally she came  to the shore of a great Ocean.<br>How marvelous, she cried, and stuck one foot in the water.<br>The Ocean beckoned her further, saying:<br>\"If you wish to kow who you are, do not be afraid.\"<br>The salt child walked further into the water,<br>dissolving with each step.<br>And at the end, exclaimed: \"Aaaah, now I know who I am.\"<br>~author unknown<br><br>You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the ocean in a drop.<br>~Rumi<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson&#8211;1871-1938 Are you bowed down in Heart? Do you but hear the clashing discords and the din of life? Then come away, come to the peaceful wood. Here bathe your soul in silence. Listen! Now, From the palpitating solitude Do you not catch, yet faint, elusive strains?<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/you-are-never-alone-in-nature\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiagape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}