What would it be like if you were to mother yourself? Shortly after Easter, a small group of people took up this question with Michelangelo\u2019s Piet\u00e0 in mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world would stop for a moment. It would be quiet, gentle, and warm. It would be like creating a loving space for myself\u2014a beautiful solitude in which things have time. I could give myself this enfolding gesture and wouldn\u2019t have to seek it elsewhere. It would be a sweet honeyed atmosphere that excludes all that is alien. An affirmation that arises without knowing anything. I could cradle myself on my own lap. But I am unable to bear myself. Have I even given birth to myself yet? And would I have to carry my own corpse? All that dies within me? All that is hard to bear about myself? Only when my \u201ccrippledness\u201d can also be born am I fully here. This is incredibly difficult, like a birth. For this, I need the help of others. So how do I give birth to the mother within me? I can love my angel and invite it to me, so that I can dwell within it. I can be a mother to my spirit being, but in this world it is a gift to have been born of my own mother. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska What would it be like if you were to mother yourself? Shortly after Easter, a small group of people took up this question with Michelangelo\u2019s Piet\u00e0 in mind: The world would stop for a moment. It would be quiet, gentle, and warm. It would be like creating a loving space for myself\u2014a beautiful solitude in which things have time. I could give myself this enfolding gesture and wouldn\u2019t have to seek it elsewhere. It would be a sweet honeyed atmosphere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22572,"featured_media":72366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796],"tags":[11800,11801,8819],"class_list":["post-72674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-ausgabe-20-2026-en","tag-english-issue-22-2026","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72674","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\/22572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72704,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72674\/revisions\/72704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Image<\/strong> Piet\u00e0 by Michelangelo, ca. 1499, St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, Vatican City, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"