{"id":35346,"date":"2022-01-20T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=35346"},"modified":"2022-08-12T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:13:22","slug":"good-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/good-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Good is Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2039I&#8217;m doing my best\u203a wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day in quarantine, without any of them being sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SP_Hannes_Weigert_grau_Das_Goetheanum-815x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34967\" width=\"408\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SP_Hannes_Weigert_grau_Das_Goetheanum-815x1024.jpg 815w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SP_Hannes_Weigert_grau_Das_Goetheanum-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SP_Hannes_Weigert_grau_Das_Goetheanum-770x967.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SP_Hannes_Weigert_grau_Das_Goetheanum-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SP_Hannes_Weigert_grau_Das_Goetheanum.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption>Painting by Hannes Weigert, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I asked him: \u00abYour best, why, what for?\u00bb This superlative is a construct of the modern man. It feels much more natural to say: \u00abI give my good.\u00bb Therein lies an integrative harmony. \u2039I give my good\u203a is not possible without a connection to life. This good stays flexible in every moment. And it doesn&#8217;t put pressure on you to be effective, efficient, or a certain way. It allows for self-talk, which to me, the superlative does not seem to do. It comes with an incapacitation that I allow because I believe I have to. But the best is worth no more than the good. Quite the opposite. And I&#8217;ve always felt under pressure when I had to say what my favorite book or color is, or who my best friend is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2039I give my good, beautiful, and true\u203a resonates \u2013 maybe even with something that is also at home outside of myself in the cosmos, in life. And that inhabits us both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2039I&#8217;m doing my best\u203a wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day in quarantine, without any of them being sick. I asked him: \u00abYour best, why, what for?\u00bb This superlative is a construct of the modern man. It feels much more natural to say: \u00abI give my good.\u00bb Therein lies an integrative harmony. \u2039I give my good\u203a is not possible without a connection to life. This good stays flexible in every moment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":34965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8838],"tags":[9079,8819],"class_list":["post-35346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-time-issues","tag-2022-3-4-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}