{"id":1277,"date":"2026-05-21T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:08:47","slug":"soul-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/soul-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/soul1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/soul1.webp 604w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/soul1-300x134.webp 300w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/soul1-600x268.webp 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">&#8220;This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds&#8221; (Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass)<br>Hinduism: \u0100<em>tman<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; The soul or the true or eternal&nbsp;self,&nbsp;or the self-existent essence within each individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My soul exists \u2014 it simply, is.<br>So also my mind.<br>The one perhaps deeper<br>Buried than the other.<br>We may say, I know my mind,<br>My mind is made up<br>As, consciously, we process the day,<br>Accepting or denying the stimuli<br>That the world and its people offer.<br>But my soul is the me<br>I have come to know<br>In the years of my life.<br>I can sit in silence and let my soul be<br>While my mind worries the day.<br>I know that my soul is the sum<br>Of the me I know:<br>The product of my upbringing,<br>Of all my people and surroundings;<br>It is the me that I know;<br>That they know;<br>The spirit at the core of me;<br>The consciousness that I write:<br>I am the poet of my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds&#8221; (Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass)Hinduism: \u0100tman&nbsp;&#8211; The soul or the true or eternal&nbsp;self,&nbsp;or the self-existent essence within each individual. My soul exists \u2014 it simply, is.So also my mind.The one perhaps deeperBuried than the other.We may say, I know my mind,My mind is made upAs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[8],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}