To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian!
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
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.
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.
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.
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.
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)
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.
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.
In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.
It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.
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.
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.
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.
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.
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.
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
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