{"id":43890,"date":"2023-01-05T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:20:44","slug":"the-answer-lies-in-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-answer-lies-in-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answer Lies in Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u2039Who am I?\u203a &#8211; That is the big question &#8211; perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi&#8217;s temple as \u2039Gnothi seauton\u203a (Know Thyself), belongs to the core of spiritual development, and is the driving force of a good story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Presumably, everyone gives a new answer in the course of life and thus reveals oneself. \u00abThe longest path is the path to find yourself,\u00bb notes Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld. The question comes closer when we ask it our neighbor: \u2039How do you see me?\u203a, for the other often has the key to the door for this path to the self. Boyfriend and girlfriend are often able to see much more, to say more about how and who you are. The question goes to the deepest level when you ask it to your very neighbor: \u2039How do you love me?\u203a That&#8217;s what King Lear does. As deep as the question is, it is impossible because the \u2039how\u203a of love is beyond all assurance. \u00abMy love weighs heavier than my word!\u00bb he hears from his youngest daughter. For this, the heart must become an ear, and the king must first find this heart, the queen in the soul. He has to give everything of himself, his clothes, and his mind to arrive in the open air and find the answer to the self there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong> Fran\u00e7ois Croissant<br><strong>Translation<\/strong> Monika Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2039Who am I?\u203a &#8211; That is the big question &#8211; perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi&#8217;s temple as \u2039Gnothi seauton\u203a (Know Thyself), belongs to the core of spiritual development, and is the driving force of a good story. Presumably, everyone gives a new answer in the course of life and thus reveals oneself. \u00abThe longest path is the path to find yourself,\u00bb notes Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld. The question comes closer when we ask it our neighbor: \u2039How do you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":43523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,9115],"tags":[11283,8819],"class_list":["post-43890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-consciousness","tag-2022-50-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890","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=43890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}