{"id":6505,"date":"2011-06-05T20:46:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:33","slug":"we-are-always-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/06\/05\/we-are-always-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Always In Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lift your arm. Let it fall onto your leg. Simple?<\/p>\n<p>Is existence simple?<\/p>\n<p>Consider that there are two massive objects: the earth &#8212; the whole big round rock of it &#8212; and your relaxed arm. The reality of the earth&#8217;s gravitational pull can be experienced in the heavy fall of your arm. Drop your arm again, cosmically this time.<\/p>\n<p>OK, here is a less obvious thought: the mass of your arm is attracting the mass of the earth. Earth-arm force is just as reciprocal as earth-moon force, or in twin stars, star-star force. The earth is falling toward your arm as your arm is falling toward the earth. The attraction is mutual. It&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a binding force in nature, and gravity is its large-scale expression. Every time you drop your hand, or take a step, or hoe the garden, it is the experience of eternal love. Our bones and the earth are lovers; they embrace when we sleep, they mate when we die.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;W. A. Mathieu, <em>The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lift your arm. Let it fall onto your leg. Simple? Is existence simple? Consider that there are two massive objects: the earth &#8212; the whole big round rock of it &#8212; and your relaxed arm. The reality of the earth&#8217;s gravitational pull can be experienced in the heavy fall of your arm. Drop your arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,48,217,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-community","category-meditation","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505","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=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}