{"id":39098,"date":"2022-07-01T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=39098"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:19:41","slug":"growth-will-be-internal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/growth-will-be-internal\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth&nbsp;Will Be Internal"},"content":{"rendered":"What is the most beautiful moment in a conversation? Probably, when new words and thoughts suddenly emerge from listening.\n\n\n\nIt is the turning point when you no longer talk to each other, but the word of the other brings something new in your own soul to birth. This is a Johannine moment because St. John is the celebration of repentance. The sun cannot rise higher. Growth is now becoming inner growth. \u00abHe has to grow, but I have to lose weight,\u00bb says John the Baptist, John, to whom the St. John's celebration is dedicated. He means: \u00abMy higher self must grow, and my old personality must decrease.\u00bb Just as Christmas means igniting the light at night, St. John's means taking the light from the world of the day inwards. To turn external growth into inner growth. It has been 50 years since<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the most beautiful moment in a conversation? Probably, when new words and thoughts suddenly emerge from listening. It is the turning point when you no longer talk to each other, but the word of the other brings something new in your own soul to birth. This is a Johannine moment because St. John is the celebration of repentance. The sun cannot rise higher. Growth is now becoming inner growth. \u00abHe has to grow, but I have to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":39004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9224,8790],"tags":[10459,8824],"class_list":["post-39098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrology","category-society-en","tag-2022-24-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39098","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\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}