{"id":45268,"date":"2023-02-24T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=45268"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:53:54","slug":"life-is-the-key-to-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/life-is-the-key-to-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is the Key to Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Life is always designed. It is always a present form that changes in time. In general, we perceive these phenomena as living, to which we grant a relationship to space and time, even if not entirely transparent, but always ordered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44669\" width=\"171\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-770x1155.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ruecken__Foto_Ariane_Totzke3_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Ariane Totzke<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>And such a relationship is always present in living beings. Spanish philosopher Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) once said: \u00abLife means as much as the present.\u00bb There is no life that is not a permanently active present. In the inanimate world, there is only elapsed and upcoming time. These time properties merge in the inorganic with infinitely small distance, that is, through nothingness. But because we live and perceive living things, we know the present and \u2013 this is not only meant psychologically \u2013 we permanently experience the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From<\/strong> Wolfgang Schad, \u00abS\u00e4ugetiere und Mensch\u00bb, [\u00abHumans and Mammals\u00bb]. Stuttgart 2012, Volume 1, p. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Monika Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is always designed. It is always a present form that changes in time. In general, we perceive these phenomena as living, to which we grant a relationship to space and time, even if not entirely transparent, but always ordered. And such a relationship is always present in living beings. Spanish philosopher Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) once said: \u00abLife means as much as the present.\u00bb There is no life that is not a permanently active present. In the inanimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16063,"featured_media":44667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8848,8839],"tags":[11294,8819],"class_list":["post-45268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-nature-experience","tag-2023-6-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45268","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\/16063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}