{"id":60091,"date":"2024-09-18T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=60091"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:10:16","slug":"through-the-eye-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/through-the-eye-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Eye of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"I look at the beautiful, and the beautiful looks at me\u2014this is how our present is created.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\"And beauty lies exhausted in the streets,\" says a song by Nick Cave. Homeless, unnoticed, rushed, exhausted, and tired, beauty lies on the side of the road and perhaps no longer feels itself. Yes, that's how I also feel sometimes in the confusion and congestion of our times, when I can\u2019t feel myself in the dimension of beautifulness. A dullness and narrowness have gradually taken hold of me, and I can hardly summon the strength to lift my gaze. Yet beauty is the very home of the human soul. And the human soul gives shelter to beauty. When I look out of beautiful eyes, life settles into its inherent harmony, even in the expression of ugliness. Beauty makes me soft and malleable, expands my<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look at the beautiful, and the beautiful looks at me\u2014this is how our present is created. &#8220;And beauty lies exhausted in the streets,&#8221; says a song by Nick Cave. Homeless, unnoticed, rushed, exhausted, and tired, beauty lies on the side of the road and perhaps no longer feels itself. Yes, that&#8217;s how I also feel sometimes in the confusion and congestion of our times, when I can\u2019t feel myself in the dimension of beautifulness. A dullness and narrowness have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":58774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8788,11470],"tags":[8798,11555,11525],"class_list":["post-60091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-essay-en","category-fundamentals","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-38-39-2024","tag-geman-edition-25-26-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60091","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\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}