You approach the canvas—it is still virgin white and untouched. What a decision to touch it with paint … The...
Being able to let go means being able to resist the will, being able to expose oneself to the unknown....
A friend’s gaze cannot be compared to any other. It accepts us as we are, in our entirety, in our light and shadow. It perceives us in our struggles, in our strengths and weaknesses. Our friend’s gaze does not rest on our perfection or imperfection, nor depend on agreement or...
Many people wish they’d met Rudolf Steiner during his life on Earth. What’s behind this longing? Perhaps there’s a somewhat...
There’s a grand mystery surrounding humankind like a shroud. That may sound dramatic, but it is a real mystery. Despite...
In Jesus, the Logos itself has become a person. This book is not the first where Rudolf Steiner “became openly completely esoteric.” He’d already taken this step by writing on Goethe’s “Fairy Tale” in his Magazin für Literatur [Magazine for Literature] in 1899 (Goethe’s 150th birthday). But it is the...
Many years ago, I was talking to the wife of a colleague in the stairwell of the Rudolf Steiner House...
Many years ago, I read the following: “The ‘I’ receives its being and meaning from that with which it is...
In The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, Rudolf Steiner frequently refers to feeling as a soul event. In Chapter 3, he starts by sharply distinguishing feeling from active thinking, which cannot be observed while it is occurring. He says that feeling is observable, along with certain other soul activities (having thoughts...
It’s not easy to put the essence of anthroposophy into words. How can one explain to skeptics, for example, what...
October 1, 1924 to March 30, 1925—“A sudden end [to the September courses]: Rudolf Steiner’s illness set in. The situation...
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