{"id":245,"date":"2004-02-14T01:46:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/14\/dont-plant-anything-but-love\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:40","slug":"dont-plant-anything-but-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/14\/dont-plant-anything-but-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Plant Anything But Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nGhazal (Ode) 916, from Rumi&#8217;s &#8220;Diwan-e<br \/>\nShams&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When you plant a tree<br \/>\nevery leaf that grows will tell you,<br \/>\nwhat you sow will bear fruit.<br \/>\nSo if you have any sense, my friend<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t plant anything but love,<br \/>\nyou show your worth by what you seek.<br \/>\nWater flows to those who want purity<br \/>\nwash you hands of all desires and<br \/>\ncome to the table of Love.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want me to tell you a secret?<br \/>\nThe flowers attract the most beautiful lover<br \/>\nwith their sweet smile and scent.<br \/>\nIf you let God weave the verse in your poem<br \/>\npeople will read it forever.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   &#8212; Translation by Azima Melita Kolin<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t and Maryam Mafi<br \/>\n\t\t\t  &#8220;Rumi: Hidden Music&#8221;<br \/>\n\t\t\t  HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghazal (Ode) 916, from Rumi&#8217;s &#8220;Diwan-e Shams&#8221; When you plant a tree every leaf that grows will tell you, what you sow will bear fruit. So if you have any sense, my friend don&#8217;t plant anything but love, you show your worth by what you seek. Water flows to those who want purity wash you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13091,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/13091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}