Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
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The path to thinking and ‹seeing› of the heart goes through the sacrifice of everything familiar, all elements of the...
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Every increase, every true higher development of the organism, can only be achieved by outgrowing itself. Each expansion is followed by a contraction. The shoot’s regression must precede the leaf’s resurrection in the form of the corolla into bract and calyx. The most beautiful flower, on the other hand, would...
The sculptor Rik ten Cate: «Every time I visit an exhibition, I come home refreshed, even though my body hurts...
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In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in...
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With their upright posture, human beings lose a large part of their outer capacity for movement. At the same time they lose the stability that is given in the animal by its quadrupedalism and low centre of gravity. The human centre of gravity lies above the middle of the body,...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
Who was Arthur Owen Barfield? Rudolf Steiner’s foremost interpreter in the English-speaking world, some might say; the «wisest friend» of...
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Novalis greatly appreciated fairy tales, seeing them as the highest form of literary expression. Some people are surprised by this. When I tell acquaintances that I make videos of Novalis stories and other fairy tales, they often smile and say, «That’s nice. I will give them to my grandchildren.» But...
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Marginalia of Rudolf Steiner’s Life and Work, No. 23 – In peripheral encounters, and once directly, Ludwig Berger circled around...
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Immerse yourself in art through Anthroposophical training and get to know the power of imagination. Those who work artistically and...
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