{"id":4595,"date":"2020-04-14T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2020-04-14T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:22:39","slug":"to-thine-own-self-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/2020\/04\/14\/to-thine-own-self-be-true\/","title":{"rendered":"To Thine Own Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.4.1″ type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.1″ hover_enabled=”0″]

To Thine Own Self<\/h1>\n
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By James Dillet Freeman<\/div>\n
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\"James<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The lake looked at the mountain, and thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n

O fortunate mountain, rising so high,<\/strong><\/p>\n

while I must lie so low.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You look far out across the world<\/strong><\/p>\n

and take part in many interesting happenings,<\/strong><\/p>\n

while I can only lie still.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How I wish I were a mountain!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mountain looked at the lake, and thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n

O fortunate lake, lying so close<\/strong><\/p>\n

to the warm-breasted Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n

while I loom here<\/strong><\/p>\n

craggy, cold, and uncomfortable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are always so peaceful,<\/strong><\/p>\n

while I am constantly having to battle<\/strong><\/p>\n

howling storm and blazing sun.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How I wish I were a lake!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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All the time, quietly,<\/strong><\/p>\n

the mountain was coming down<\/strong><\/p>\n

in silver streams to run into the lake,<\/strong><\/p>\n

and the lake was rising as silver mists<\/strong><\/p>\n

to fall as snow upon the mountain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"JamesThis poem is excerpted from\u00a0<\/span>Angels Sing in Me: The James Dillet Freeman Memorial Book<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Unity Books, 2004), now out of print. To read more of Freeman\u2019s writing, you may request the booklet\u00a0<\/span>I Am God\u2019s Song<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Thine Own Self By James Dillet Freeman The lake looked at the mountain, and thought: O fortunate mountain, rising so high, while I must lie so low. You look far out across the world and take part in many interesting happenings, while I can only lie still. How I wish I were a mountain! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}