{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-18T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjmaclean.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/18\/26\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:56:00","slug":"26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/26\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this fascinating quote from Erich Fromm, author of Escape From Freedom:<\/p>\n

“A person’s main task in life is to give birth to oneself.”<\/p>\n

This quote really resonated with me because this morning I woke up and realized that being myself doesn’t mean egotism or arrogance or detachment from others. The only way for me to really connect with others is to be who I am without reservation.<\/p>\n

Sometimes that can be scary, because anything done without reservation might go overboard and upset others. It all depends on the place you are coming from!<\/p>\n

When I can be myself totally, I connect to my spiritual side, and the common bond we all have with each other. A person’s unique and fascinating personality and perspective then has a chance to show itself to the world, and admire and be admired.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this fascinating quote from Erich Fromm, author of Escape From Freedom: “A person’s main task in life is to give birth to oneself.” This quote really resonated with me because this morning I woke up and realized that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-about-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}