Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns...
Come! Come! Thou art the Soul, the Soul so dear, Revolving!Come! Come! Thou art the Cedar, the Cedar’s Spear, Revolving!O...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive those phenomena to which we grant a relationship to space and time – if not entirely transparent, then always in itself ordered. Ortega y Gasset once said: «Life means the...
When I make my way through a bewildering landscape, after a long and strenuous effort, and can survey the whole...
From 2022 on, the US quarter coin will depict five women whose life work have had a great impat on...
The short life of Friedrich von Hardenberg brought him to an initation at the grave of his beloved. Out of this experience, he created works that still speak to us today. A portrait for the 250th anniversary of his birth. For Dante, it was a descent into the underworld, the...
A small book dealing with a big issue, ‹Breathing with the Climate Crisis›, has recently been published at the Goetheanum....
In a linear system of time, the beginning and end are absolute. If the passage of time is viewed in...
Much of what we encounter in the world is not as it seems. But often, it takes a more extended, even painful time, until we realize this. But there are also, arriving like gifts, moments of life, and gifted people who do not have to wait that long for their...
Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
He wrote that his reading was «the light of heaven,» «the deepest book there is.» Christian Bobin did not die....
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