{"id":7189,"date":"2015-05-05T05:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/its-enough\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T05:27:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T05:27:58","slug":"its-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/its-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Standing on a hill behind my house, looking down on it, the thought occurred to me: <em>It&#39;s enough<\/em>. &#0160;One modest house suffices. &#0160;And then the thought that the ability to be satisfied with what one has is a necessary condition of happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Satisfied with what one <em>has<\/em>, not with what one <em>is<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Perhaps it is like this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The fool, satisfied with what he is, is never satisfied with what he has. The philosopher, satisfied with what he has, is never satisfied with what he is. &#0160;The sage is satisfied with both. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">There are many fools and a few philosophers; are there any sages?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing on a hill behind my house, looking down on it, the thought occurred to me: It&#39;s enough. &#0160;One modest house suffices. &#0160;And then the thought that the ability to be satisfied with what one has is a necessary condition of happiness. Satisfied with what one has, not with what one is. Perhaps it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/05\/its-enough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Enough&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,222,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-happiness","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}