“I made it for you!” my little three-year-old friend says shyly. Delighted, I stoop down to her level, and we...
On Christmas Eve, a child is born into the world. Not only that—a star rises. He is the star that...
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...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
I Not being reconciled with oneself is a well-known condition. It describes our usual relationship with ourselves. We should not...
To become friends, we need to get to know each other. This is the point invoked in the famous scene between the Little Prince and the fox in the rose garden. Familiarity comes from the trust that grows out of encounters and getting closer to one another. When we are...
The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible—due to external solidity—to...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
King Lear is not an ordinary royal drama but—like Hamlet and Macbeth—a tragedy with archetypal images. Behind these images, historical context disappears. King Lear is about the relationship fathers have to their children: Lear to his three daughters and the Earl of Gloucester to his two sons. The famous tragedy...
In his Notebook #210, Rudolf Steiner writes about a combinatorics of body, soul, and spirit that would be suitable for...
As part of its series on Humanity, Development and the Future, the Mahle Foundation invited the philosopher and journalist Alexander...
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