{"id":449,"date":"2004-06-01T04:14:23","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T12:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/06\/01\/word-fog\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:47","slug":"word-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/06\/01\/word-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>Words, even if they come from<br \/>\nthe soul, hide the soul, as fog<\/p>\n<p>rising off the sea covers the sea,<br \/>\nthe coast, the fish, the pearls.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s noble work to build coherent<br \/>\nphilosophical discourses, but<\/p>\n<p>they block out the sun of truth.<br \/>\nSee God&#8217;s qualities as an ocean,<\/p>\n<p>this world as foam on the purity<br \/>\nof that.  Brush away and look<\/p>\n<p>through the alphabet to essence,<br \/>\nas you do the hair covering your<\/p>\n<p>beloved&#8217;s eyes.  Here&#8217;s the mystery:<br \/>\nthis intricate, astonishing world<\/p>\n<p>is proof of God&#8217;s presence even as<br \/>\nit covers the beauty. One flake<\/p>\n<p>from the wall of a gold mine does<br \/>\nnot give much idea what it&#8217;s like<\/p>\n<p>when the sun shines in and turns<br \/>\nthe air and the workers golden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ghazal (Ode) 921<br \/>\nVersion by Coleman Barks, with Nevit Ergin<br \/>\n&#8220;The Glance&#8221;<br \/>\nViking-Penguin, 1999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words, even if they come from the soul, hide the soul, as fog rising off the sea covers the sea, the coast, the fish, the pearls. It&#8217;s noble work to build coherent philosophical discourses, but they block out the sun of truth. See God&#8217;s qualities as an ocean, this world as foam on the purity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}