{"id":4401,"date":"2015-07-16T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T19:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2015-08-25T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:36:52","slug":"khalils-words-on-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/khalils-words-on-pain","title":{"rendered":"Khalil&#8217;s words on Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-prophet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-prophet.jpg\" alt=\"the-prophet\" width=\"864\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-prophet.jpg 864w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-prophet-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-prophet-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-prophet-788x786.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses<br \/>\nyour understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its<br \/>\nheart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.<\/p>\n<p>And could you keep your heart in wonder at the<br \/>\ndaily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem<br \/>\nless wondrous than your joy;<\/p>\n<p>And you would accept the seasons of your heart,<br \/>\neven as you have always accepted the seasons that<br \/>\npass over your fields.<\/p>\n<p>And you would watch with serenity through the<br \/>\nwinters of your grief.<\/p>\n<p>Much of your pain is self-chosen.<\/p>\n<p>It is the bitter potion by which the physician within<br \/>\nyou heals your sick self.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy<br \/>\nin silence and tranquillity:<\/p>\n<p>For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by<br \/>\nthe tender hand of the Unseen,<\/p>\n<p>And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has<br \/>\nbeen fashioned of the clay which the Potter has<br \/>\nmoistened with His own sacred tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~ Khalil Gibran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,112],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspiration","tag-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}