{"id":64057,"date":"2025-03-13T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=64057"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:05:24","slug":"sands-of-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/sands-of-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sands of Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"On a shore, stones lie scattered in the sand. I pick one up, look at it in my hand. The sand runs on and on through my fingers. A whole life slips through my fingers. I move them gently as if trying to move a string that isn\u2019t there. A whole life slips from my hand. The stone lies heavy in it, but the sand does not stop falling. It falls and falls and scatters and spreads upon the beach. A life disappears before it has even been\u2014it slips from my hands, from my grasp, from all I can do. It flees into a distant reality that we only guess at while alive, into which we cannot follow, and before which we stand waiting, as if before a great closed gate.\n\n\n\nThe gate hides a reality. Behind the gate blows a wide, black cloth decorated with stars barely visible. On the frame of the gate is writ<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>On a shore, stones lie scattered in the sand. I pick one up, look at it in my hand. The sand runs on and on through my fingers. A whole life slips through my fingers. I move them gently as if trying to move a string that isn\u2019t there. A whole life slips from my hand. The stone lies heavy in it, but the sand does not stop falling. It falls and falls and scatters and spreads upon the beach. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20621,"featured_media":63688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8839,8793],"tags":[11626,11627,8814],"class_list":["post-64057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-nature-experience","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-9-2025-en","tag-english-issue-11-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64057","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\/20621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}