{"id":43719,"date":"2022-12-22T13:57:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=43719"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:57:32","slug":"what-do-i-mean-by-self-realisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/what-do-i-mean-by-self-realisation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do I Mean by Self-Realisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment of self-assertion in devotion and sacrifice to people or tasks? Can self-realisation arise at all in one of these directions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Is self-realisation in general a process that only proceeds in one direction, that is, starting from the self, towards realisation? Wouldn&#8217;t such a realisation process be a journey down a one-way street that concludes in a dead-end? Can self-realisation be a monologue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-realisation is not an enterprise in the uninhabited space of unlimited opportunities. Self-realisation seems to me to be much more a process that corresponds to an encounter and relationship: it is always about an interrelationship between I and You, between self and world. In such an interrelationship, new experiences and qualities can develop. Self-realisation is a creative process whose creative ideas and motifs come from the self, whose materials and qualities come from the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From<\/strong> Markus Treichler, <em>Der \u00fcberforderte Mensch.<\/em> Munich 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image<\/strong> Sofia Lismont<br><strong>Translation<\/strong> Christian von Arnim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment of self-assertion in devotion and sacrifice to people or tasks? Can self-realisation arise at all in one of these directions? Is self-realisation in general a process that only proceeds in one direction, that is, starting from the self, towards realisation? Wouldn&#8217;t such a realisation process be a journey down a one-way street that concludes in a dead-end? Can self-realisation be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":43340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8848,9115],"tags":[11277,8819],"class_list":["post-43719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-consciousness","tag-2022-49-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43719","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\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}