Every increase, every true higher development of the organism, can only be achieved by outgrowing itself. Each expansion is followed...
The path to thinking and ‹seeing› of the heart goes through the sacrifice of everything familiar, all elements of the...
Some of its critics dismiss anthroposophical pedagogy as unscientific, e.g., because it attributes pre-existence – reincarnation – to individuals (Prange 1985, p. 20 ff.) or because it allegedly drew these views «from the traditions of the religious wisdom of the East […]» (Ulrich 1986, p. 94). However, it is not...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
When, in 1924, student Rudolf Hauschka asked Rudolf Steiner his most important question, “Doctor, what is life?”, he did not get a defining answer but a task: “Study rhythms—rhythm carries life.” Steiner’s lecture series Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde (Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology/Knowledge of Man, GA 107), contains essential information on this subject, especially in...
«Michael is a silent spirit. […] Because what we experience in Michael is actually not the word but – if...
New things always enter the world through pain. Birth does not exist without pain. For new things, it is also...
It starts with me, but it’s not about me. In considering our personal relationship to the world, we usually discover the possibility and perhaps the necessity of qualitative ‹self-optimization›, not only the quantitative increase of our cognitive, emotional, and volitional abilities. On the one hand, this presupposes a certain degree...
Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment...
With their upright posture, human beings lose a large part of their outer capacity for movement. At the same time...
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