Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment...
When, in 1924, student Rudolf Hauschka asked Rudolf Steiner his most important question, “Doctor, what is life?”, he did not...
In the district where our counseling center is located and which we are responsible for—a so-called social hot spot in Dortmund with a high proportion of migrants—there are public places where young men regularly gather. In my example, they are young people who have immigrated with their parents from the...
Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
Charged with a significant task by the first head of the Mathematics and Astronomy section, Elisabeth Vreede, Willi Sucher devoted...
In their sleep, human beings enter a world from which they supply their life body with the forces that strive to renew the physical body again and again. If these forces are no longer sufficient, the physical body dies. – In death, human beings enter a world from which they...
The spirit doesn’t reside in the head, nor does it do so in the pineal gland, or in the neocortex....
With their upright posture, human beings lose a large part of their outer capacity for movement. At the same time...
In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in interconnected yet distinct cycles, the time horizon expands: what was before the beginning, and what will be after the end? This brings into view an intermediate period between two epochs...
Therefore a request is brought forth: everything should create its own time. It creates its rhythm, which must interweave with...
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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