{"id":2827,"date":"2024-01-15T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:37:38","slug":"a-shadow-of-your-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/01\/15\/a-shadow-of-your-self\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shadow of Your Self"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

A Shadow of Your Self<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Divinity
\nthat expresses
\nItself as
\nYou<\/p>\n

does not require
\na Religion
\nto Be
\nYou
\nand All That Is.<\/p>\n

As if
\nThe Love
\nthat burst into
\na trillion Fractals
\nneeds a Ritual,
\na Rule Book,
\nan Owner\u2019s Manual
\nto
\nShine.<\/p>\n

But We Fractals
\noften Believe
\nwe need Rules
\nto simply
\nBe
\nThe Light,
\nMoment-by-Moment,<\/p>\n

for Fear
\nthat We will
\ncease to
\nBe
\nThe Divinity
\nWe Are.<\/p>\n

As if
\nWe are Somehow
\nassembling
\nOur Selves
\ninto the Divine,
\nStep-by-Step,
\nRule-by-Rule,<\/p>\n

when,
\nIn Truth,<\/p>\n

The Divine
\ncan only
\nShine,<\/p>\n

and Your
\nOwner\u2019s Manual
\njust makes
\nYou appear
\nto be a
\nShadow of
\nYour Self.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Tom Barrett; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A Shadow of Your Self The Divinity that expresses Itself as You does not require a Religion to Be You and All That Is. As if The Love that burst into a trillion Fractals needs a Ritual, a Rule Book, an Owner\u2019s Manual to Shine. But We Fractals often Believe we need Rules to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}