{"id":1065,"date":"2021-09-05T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2021-09-06T07:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T14:49:53","slug":"whither-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/05\/whither-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!\u2026the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizards\u2019s rustling, a breath, a wink, an eye glance\u2014little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.<\/p><cite>Friedrich Nietzsche &#8211; <em>Thus Spoke Zarathustra<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>and similarly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional love and readiness to celebrate life at any moment often contrast sharply with the inner state of the dog&#8217;s owner \u2014 depressed, anxious, burdened by problems, lost in thought, not present in the only place and only time there is: Here and Now. One wonders: living with this person, how does the dog manage to remain so sane, so joyous?<\/p><cite>Eckhart Tolle,\u00a0<em>Stillness Speaks<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!\u2026the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizards\u2019s rustling, a breath, a wink, an eye glance\u2014little maketh up the best happiness. Be still. Friedrich Nietzsche &#8211; Thus Spoke Zarathustra and similarly: The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional love and readiness to celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60,59],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","tag-philosophy","tag-quotations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}