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What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: What is necessary to keep
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos ...
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Colour is the soul of
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Music is the expression of
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense
Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Everyday something must be achieved
Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Knowledge of life in the
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: To truly know the world,
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The task of art is
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When the past has taught
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe ... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Anthroposophy is a path of
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Where God's presence is no
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Anthroposophy does not want to
You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: You will not be good
He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: He who perceives in the
We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us ... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: We must eradicate root and
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: All of nature begins to
If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If a child has been
All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: All the great Founders of
You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: You'll be able to gain
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls ... the materialistic culture ... is now on the way to its close.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: I ask you to write
It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: It is owing to our
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Anthroposophie is not a religion
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When the human being sings
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: We differ from one another
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: We find the instrument for
The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The thing itself is one;
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The history of our spiritual
Then Faust descends into the realm of the Mothers - the spiritual world; he succeeds in bringing up with him the spirit of Helena. But he is not ripe enough to unite this spirit with his own soul. Hence the scene where desire stirs in Faust, where he wishes to embrace the archetype of Helena with sensual passion. He is therefore thrust back. That is the fate of everyone who seeks to approach the Spiritual World harboring personal, egotistical feelings; he is repelled like Faust. He must first mature; must learn the real relationship between the three members of man's nature: the immortal spirit which goes on from life to life, from incarnation to incarnation; the body, commencing and ending its existence between birth and death, and the soul between the two of them. Body, soul and spirit - how they unite, how they mutually react - that is the lesson Faust must learn. The archetype of Helena, the immortal, the eternal, that passes from life to life, from one incarnation to the other, Faust has already tried to find, but was then immature. Now he is to become ripe so that he is worthy to truly penetrate into the spirit realm. For this purpose he had to learn that this immortality comes to man only when he can be re-embodied repeatedly within physical existence - have new lives extending from birth to death. Therefore must Goethe show how the soul lives between spirit and body, how the soul is placed between the immortal spirit and the body which exists only between birt
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Then Faust descends into the
The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars!
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The stars once spoke to
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: May my soul bloom in
When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When the human being hears
Each individual is a species unto him/herself.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Each individual is a species
If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If we do not believe
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Thoughts that deny reincarnation are
Today, we have knowledge of many, many things and the relations among human beings have multiplied ad infinitum. But we live in cities that are like deafening factories in awful Babels, with nothing to remind us of our inner world. Our communion with this inner world is not through contemplation but through books. We have passed from intuition into intellectualism.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Today, we have knowledge of
Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Each one of us has
If a man approaches a fact in the world around him with a judgment arising from his previous experiences, he shuts himself off by this judgment from the quiet, complete effect which this fact can have on him. The learner must be able each moment to make himself a perfectly empty vessel into which the new world flows. Knowledge is received only in those moments in which every judgment, every criticism coming from ourselves, is silent. For example, when we meet a person, the question is not at all whether we are wiser than he. Even the most unreasoning child has something to reveal to the greatest sage. And if he approach the child with his prejudgment, be it ever so wise, he pushes his wisdom like a dulled glass in front of what the child ought to reveal to him.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If a man approaches a
We suffer because with every inner and outer suffering we eliminate one of our faults and become transformed into something better.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: We suffer because with every
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: In very ancient times of
I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: I look at the bird
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: For every human illness, somewhere
In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: In the future every human
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Man is not a being
Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Goethe's thinking was not rigid
It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: It is important that we
In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's evolution and to at its human stage of development
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: In the universe we have
Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Live through deeds of love,
When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When we feel an obligation
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Love is higher than opinion.
Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Seek the truly practical life,
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: In the future no human
Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Our task is to harvest
If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If there is something more
The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The heights of the spirit
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The outer world, with all
The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The time has come to
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Grateful for his mistakes, man
In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: In so far as we
There slumber in every human being faculties by means of which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds. Mystics, Gnostics, Theosophists - all speak of a world of soul and spirit which for them is just as real as the world we see with our physical eyes and touch with our physical hands.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: There slumber in every human
Into our inner being
The riches of the senses pour.
The Cosmic Spirit finds itself
Reflected in the human eye,
Which ever must renew its strength
From out that spirit source.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Into our inner being<br />The
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: For every step in spiritual
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer ...
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The worlds represent increasing phases
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: You have no idea how
When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other ...
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When human beings meet together
There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: There will be as much
We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: We are fully human only
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: A real medicine can only
The idea of the freedom of the human will has found enthusiastic supporters and stubborn opponents in plenty. There are those who, in their moral fervor, label anyone a man of limited intelligence who can deny so patent a fact as freedom. Opposed to them are others who regard it as the acme of unscientific thinking for anyone to believe that the uniformity of natural law is broken in the sphere of human action and thinking. One and the same thing is thus proclaimed, now as the most precious possession of humanity, now as its most fatal illusion.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The idea of the freedom
The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The Greeks had the greatest
If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If man wants to obtain
Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Feelings are for the soul
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When you try to do
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The basis of artistic creation
Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Just as an age was
Little is accomplished if one tries to understand these words theoretically. Much more can be gained when one creates sacred moments in life when one is willing to energetically fill one's soul with the living content of such words.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Little is accomplished if one
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: For what lies inside the
If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In the case of fair people, less nourishment is driven into the eyes and hair; it remains instead in the brain and endows it with intelligence. Brown- and dark-haired people drive the substances into their eyes and hair that the fair people retain in their brains.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If the blonds and blue-eyed
Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Nothing is better for the
Whoever seeks higher knowledge must create it for himself. He must instill it into his soul. It cannot be done by study; it can only be done through life. Whoever, therefore, wishes to become a student of higher knowledge must assiduously cultivate this inner life of devotion. Everywhere in his environment and his experiences he must seek motives of admiration and homage. If I meet a man and blame him for his shortcomings, I rob myself of power to attain higher knowledge; but if I try to enter lovingly into his merits, I gather such power. The student must continually be intent upon following this advice. The spiritually experienced know how much they owe to the circumstance that in face of all things they ever again turn to the good, and withhold adverse judgement. But this must not remain an external rule of life; rather it must take possession of our innermost soul.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Whoever seeks higher knowledge must
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Reverence awakens in the soul
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Those who would know the
The myth says that Osiris was cut into fourteen pieces and was buried in fourteen graves. Here in this profound myth we have a wonderful reference to the cosmic event. The fourteen aspects of the moon are the fourteen pieces of the dismembered Osiris. 10 The complete Osiris is the whole moon-disk.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The myth says that Osiris
For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: For human beings, love is
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The task of understanding is
Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Beauty is not the divine
A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: A race or nation stands
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When sculpting the human figure
Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Without common sense, all thine
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: The student of mathematics must
Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Only when I follow my
Our task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Our task is to educate
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: When we raise ourselves through
Finally we touch that Great Fact, which Goethe incorporated into his final words: the 'ever-womanly.' It is a sin against Goethe to say that here he means the female sex. He refers to that profundity signifying the human soul as related to the mystery of the world; that which deeply yearns as the eternal in man, the ever-womanly which draws the soul to the eternally immortal, the eternal wisdom, and which gives itself to the 'eternal masculine.' The ever-womanly draws us towards the ever-masculine. It has nothing to do with something feminine in the ordinary sense. Therefore can we truly seek this ever-womanly in man and woman: the ever-womanly which aspires to the union with the ever-manly in the cosmos, to become one with the Divine-Spiritual that inter-penetrates and permeates the world towards which Faust strives. This mystery of man of all ages pursued by Faust from the beginning, this secret to which Spiritual Science is to lead us in a modern sense, is expressed by Goethe paradigmatically and monumentally in those five words at the conclusion of the second part of Faust represented as a mystic Spirit Choir; that everything physical surrounding us in the sense world is Maya, illusion; a symbol only of the spiritual. But this spiritual we can perceive if we penetrate that which covers it like a veil. And in it we see attained what on earth was impossible of attainment. We see that, which for ordinary intellect is indescribable, transformed into action as soon as the huma
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Finally we touch that Great
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Geometry is knowledge that appears
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: All real philosophers have been
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: If men had known how
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Where the realm of freedom
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Heights of the spirit can
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