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...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or, the same thing, it must reconnect with the human being. For it is a split-off piece of our being that we must reintegrate before we return to the Creator. That...
We began with ‹thinking› and ended with ‹thanking›. Whether or not there is an etymological relationship between these two words,...
Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment...
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns into action through consolidation. Will ‹is› indeed in essence sympathy or – to put it loftily – love of the world. However, not love of the world in order to...
Every metanoia, i.e., inner transformation, has something paradoxical about it: on the one hand, I want to overcome the old...
Answers to the questions by Gilda Bartel in ‹Das Goetheanum› 29/30, 20th of July 2022: Peace is quiet. S. Thein...
The weekly staff meeting at the Goetheanum has recently featured individual coworkers speaking about what the spiritual world means to them. Sebastian Jüngel, who works in Communication, gave his insights. It is invisible but effective at the beginning and the end of life: as if by an invisible hand, the...
Changes in the demographics of Central Europe are placing a significant strain on society. The first wave of people born...
The fairy tale in this issue speaks of three brothers: “Faith,” “Love,” and “Hope.” Where do these names come from?...
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