{"id":1474,"date":"2018-01-03T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zatma.org\/new-wp\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T11:15:19","slug":"our-deepest-condolences-to-our-former-abbot-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Our Deepest Condolences to Our Former Abbot John"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abbot John’s dearest wife, Nanci died on New Year’s Eve after a long struggle with illness.
\n\"\"Dear Abbot John,<\/h3>\n

We send you our deepest condolences on the wings of two poems from\u00a0masters\u00a0<\/em> who offer what they have to offer in the heartache of your loss of your dearest Nanci.<\/h2>\n

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Don\u2019t run away from grief, o soul,
\nLook for the remedy inside the pain,
\nbecause the rose came from the thorn
\nand the ruby came from a stone.
\n~ Rumi<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible I am pushing\u00a0through solid rock
\nin flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone;
\nI am such a long way in I see no way through,<\/p>\n

and no space: everything is close to my face,
\nand everything close to my face is stone.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have much knowledge yet in grief
\nso this massive darkness makes me small.
\nYou be the master: make yourself fierce, break in:
\nthen your great transforming will happen to me,
\nand my great grief cry will happen to you.
\n~ Rainer Maria Rilke\u00a0(Translated by Robert Bly)<\/p>\n

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Lighthouse image credit:https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/lighthouse-photography\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abbot John’s dearest wife, Nanci died on New Year’s Eve after a long struggle with illness. Dear Abbot John, We send you our deepest condolences on the wings of two poems from\u00a0masters\u00a0 who offer what they have to offer in the heartache of your loss of your dearest Nanci.   Don\u2019t run away from grief,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}