{"id":1243,"date":"2015-12-09T10:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T10:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2016-08-02T01:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T01:34:06","slug":"the-totality-of-the-law-is-love-and-we-are-the-law-beautiful-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"The Whole of the Law is LOVE and We are the LAW &#8211; Beautiful Beings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: garamond,times new roman;\"> Then a lawyer said, &#8220;But what of our Laws, master?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd he answered:<br \/>\nYou delight in laying down laws,<br \/>\nYet you delight more in breaking them.<br \/>\nLike children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.<br \/>\nBut while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,<br \/>\nAnd when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you.<br \/>\nVerily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.<br \/>\nBut what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers,<br \/>\nBut to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness?<br \/>\nWhat of the cripple who hates dancers?<br \/>\nWhat of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?<br \/>\nWhat of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?<br \/>\nAnd of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers?<br \/>\nWhat shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?<br \/>\nThey see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.<br \/>\nAnd what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?<br \/>\nAnd what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?<br \/>\nBut you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?<br \/>\nYou who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course?<br \/>\nWhat man&#8217;s law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man&#8217;s prison door?<br \/>\nWhat laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man&#8217;s iron chains?<br \/>\nAnd who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man&#8217;s path?<br \/>\nPeople of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Prophet ~ Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then a lawyer said, &#8220;But what of our Laws, master?&#8221; And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,8,52],"tags":[80,123],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healing","category-inspiration","category-poetry-the-muse","category-spirituality","tag-love-unbound","tag-the-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}