{"id":474,"date":"2020-07-17T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:22:58","slug":"between-the-soul-and-the-outside-world-scooter-and-hesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/17\/between-the-soul-and-the-outside-world-scooter-and-hesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Soul and the Outside World, Scooter and Hesse."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-16-2020-glowing-head-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-475\" width=\"591\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-16-2020-glowing-head-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-16-2020-glowing-head-1-300x63.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong><em>Friction (Between the Soul and the Outside World, Scooter and Hesse)<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>At times I feel myself floating toward it ~<br>you know, that \u2018Rumi Field\u2019, only to be<br>yanked back into this reality, which is, truly,<br>a finely fine reality for the Lessons I have<br>asked to receive, during this time.<br>Still, nothing surpasses the Knowing:<br>the Beginning and the End are one<br>and the same.\u00a0 Lessons.\u00a0 Circles.\u00a0 Being.<br>\u00a0<br>Patience has not been my strong suit<br>during this incarnation. Perhaps I think<br>we\u2019ve been gifted enough time to understand\u2026<br>enough to be Oh! so much more Enlightened,<br>to \u201cGet it\u201d ~ then I slip and fall back into<br>my very own Top Ten Replays and remember<br>we, \u201cBeens\u201d, seem to be very slow learners.<br>Especially, me.\u00a0 Ego?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Painful Truths.\u00a0<br>Yes, I am my worst critic ~ that\u2019s the easy part.\u00a0<br>Is it possible to steal one\u2019s own Energy<br>repeatedly; and, thus, force a Spiritual Stalemate?<br>\u00a0<br>Will we never be \u2018finished\u2019?\u00a0 Ever Glow with the<br>wisdom that none of it matters if we don\u2019t<br>embrace what we requested and why we\u2019re here<br>at all?\u00a0 Love?\u00a0 When ego rises (and it rises often)<br>we, each, lose. If it rises enough, we\u2019re simply out<br>of the Game \u2018til next time? Maybe returning frequently<br>is no badge of honour, but rather, simply proves our<br>stupidity, or our stubbornness, which, in turn, harms<br>none but ourselves.\u00a0 Peter and I watched clouds the<br>other day ~ we saw identical images.\u00a0 The Power of<br>Suggestion?\u00a0 Or, more? Lessons.\u00a0 Circles.\u00a0 Being.\u00a0\u00a0<br>None are a given, nor are immediate ~ all, we earn.<br>\u00a0<br>The Old Music Master knew.\u00a0 Glowing Heads.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>7-14-2018\/7-16-2020 by Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rumi Fields and Spiritual Stalemate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}