“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
Midway through a four-week lesson period in a 10th grade trigonometry class, two questions for the assembled students: What grade...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and...
I remember clearly the first page of the first lecture series by Rudolf Steiner that I ever read. I was astonished. Steiner writes what an imaginary ancient oriental sage, in contemplating modern Western civilization, would say: “You are living entirely in fear; your whole mood of soul is governed by...
What does the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science, want to be? In January 1924, Rudolf Steiner had something to...
I am experiencing consternation and solidarity everywhere these days. People with connections to Ukraine mobilize other people who had no...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we “know,” there is always...
It is in the nature of things that inspiration, the middle of the three stages of knowledge—the transitions between which...
At a wedding reception, guests were invited to make a wish for the couple. One of the wedding guests surprised...
Letzte Kommentare