{"id":389,"date":"2004-05-05T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/05\/use-your-swifter-wings\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:12","slug":"use-your-swifter-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/05\/use-your-swifter-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Swifter Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nevery moment<br \/>a voice<br \/>out of this world<br \/>calls on our soul<br \/>to wake up and rise<\/p>\n<p>this soul of ours<br \/> is like a flame<br \/>with more smoke than light<br \/>blackening our vision<br \/>letting no light through<\/p>\n<p>lessen the smoke and<br \/>more light brightens your house<br \/>the house you dwell in now<br \/>and the abode<br \/>you&#8217;ll eventually move to<\/p>\n<p>now my precious soul<br \/>how long are you going to<br \/>waste yourself<br \/>in this wandering journey<br \/>can&#8217;t you hear the voice<br \/>can&#8217;t you use your swifter wings<br \/>and answer the call<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Translation by Nader Khalili<br \/>&#8220;Rumi, Fountain of Fire&#8221;<br \/>Cal-Earth Press, 1994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>every momenta voiceout of this worldcalls on our soulto wake up and rise this soul of ours is like a flamewith more smoke than lightblackening our visionletting no light through lessen the smoke andmore light brightens your housethe house you dwell in nowand the abodeyou&#8217;ll eventually move to now my precious soulhow long are 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-389","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\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}