{"id":67888,"date":"2025-09-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=67888"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:18:58","slug":"compassion-as-a-creative-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/compassion-as-a-creative-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion as a Creative Force"},"content":{"rendered":"The experience of powerlessness is part of inner transformation. Some thoughts on encountering the spirit of the times.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery day, the news shows us a world in distress. On top of this, we have challenges and threshold moments in our own personal lives. These experiences can paralyze us\u2014or they can initiate an inner movement. If, instead of repressing our pain and suffering, we allow ourselves to feel them deeply and consciously, we can come to an experience of compassion that takes us farther than our emotional upheaval. Compassion can transform into a force: a power that connects our thinking, feeling, and doing. A will for healing activity can arise from this force\u2014at first quietly within us; then eventually visibly in the world.\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s precisely in the moment of feeling u<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>The experience of powerlessness is part of inner transformation. Some thoughts on encountering the spirit of the times. Every day, the news shows us a world in distress. On top of this, we have challenges and threshold moments in our own personal lives. These experiences can paralyze us\u2014or they can initiate an inner movement. If, instead of repressing our pain and suffering, we allow ourselves to feel them deeply and consciously, we can come to an experience of compassion that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9180,"featured_media":67703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8815],"tags":[11700,11701,8824],"class_list":["post-67888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-world-situation","tag-ausgabe-37-2025-en","tag-english-issue-39-40-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67888","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\/9180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}