{"id":10462,"date":"2020-07-26T00:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:12:57","slug":"on-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/07\/26\/on-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"On Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/50152521087\/in\/album-72157713534896128\/\" title=\"DSC09894\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50152521087_432de12a8e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" alt=\"DSC09894\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is said that before entering the sea<br \/>\na river trembles with fear.<\/p>\n<p>She looks back at the path she has traveled,<br \/>\nfrom the peaks of the mountains,<br \/>\nthe long winding road crossing forests and villages.<\/p>\n<p>And in front of her,<br \/>\nshe sees an ocean so vast,<br \/>\nthat to enter<br \/>\nthere seems nothing more than to disappear forever.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no other way.<br \/>\nThe river can not go back.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody can go back.<br \/>\nTo go back is impossible in existence.<\/p>\n<p>The river needs to take the risk<br \/>\nof entering the ocean<br \/>\nbecause only then will fear disappear,<br \/>\nbecause that\u2019s where the river will know<br \/>\nit\u2019s not about disappearing into the ocean,<br \/>\nbut of becoming the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>-Khalil Gibran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,111,16,215,219],"tags":[230,165,221,229],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-buddhism","category-nature","category-poetry","category-spirit","tag-faith","tag-fear","tag-nature","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","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=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10471,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}