{"id":62395,"date":"2024-12-19T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=62395"},"modified":"2024-12-19T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:59:50","slug":"you-must-love-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/you-must-love-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"You Must Love Someone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have always been dark times in human history. There has never been only peace, love, and joy on earth. And at the same time, in difficult times, human souls have always been drawn by a small light and sometimes by a large shining star to overcome obstacles and move towards a better future. What can be a shining star for us in this time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember a lecture given to our Slovenian audience many years ago by a great anthroposophical doctor, Dr. Ratimir \u0160imetin from Zagreb. He said that everyone needs at least one person in their life, especially when they are young, who really loves them in order to be able to develop healthily. It can be their mother or father, or another person, or even someone who is not related to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way he expressed this touched me deeply at the time. Can you imagine? Our development in life depends on whether we are loved, whether at least one person really appreciates that we are in the world. We have an enormous responsibility towards other people. In this age of the conscious soul, it seems that all beautiful concepts like hope are closely related to this responsibility. We can ask ourselves: do I really love at least one person? Is everyone I know loved by at least one person, so that everyone around the globe can shake hands and hearts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many people are lonely and in difficult life situations? In the worst of situations, we can sometimes experience that the necessary strength can be found in our own soul as a Christ flame. But not everyone finds it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Slovenian poet Tone Pav\u010dek (1928-2011) wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">You are in the world to look at the sun.<br>You are in the world to follow the sun.<br>You are in the world to be the sun<br>and to banish shadows from the world.<span id='easy-footnote-1-62395' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/you-must-love-someone\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-62395' title='Both poems are translated with great modesty by the author.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope seems mysterious, not self-evident. If we look at nature today, creatures and landscapes are threatened, and the entire earth as an organism is threatened. If we continue our current lifestyle, humanity is headed towards a catastrophe. Who loves the earth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Goethean view of nature, we often talk about keen interest in another being as a gateway to true love\u2014love is interest in another being. In this sense, I would describe hope \u201cmathematically\u201d as a sum of individual true, non-egoistic interests in the development of other beings. In this sense, hope should be a call for all of us to develop even more interest in our fellow human beings, in other beings, and in the spiritual world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Slovenian poet, Ivan Minatti (1924-2012), wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">You must love someone,<br>be it grass, river, tree or stone<br>You must put your hand on someone&#8217;s shoulder<br>so that it\u2014hungry\u2014can be nourished with closeness<br>You must, you must,<br>it is like bread, like a sip of water<br>You must give your white clouds,<br>your bold bird&#8217;s dream,<br>your shy bird&#8217;s helplessness<br>\u2014there must be for it<br>a nest of peace and tenderness somewhere<br>You must love someone,<br>be it grass, river, tree or stone<br>Because trees and grass know loneliness<br>\u2014footsteps always keep going,<br>even if they stop for a moment<br>Because the river knows sadness<br>if it only meanders over its depth<br>Because the stone knows pain<br>\u2014so many heavy feet<br>have already passed over its silent heart<br>You must love someone,<br>you must love someone, keep up with someone,<br>in the same footsteps\u2014<br>Oh grass, river, stone, tree,<br>silent companions of loners and weirdos,<br>good, great creatures that only speak when people are silent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Illustration <\/strong>Gilda Bartel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have always been dark times in human history. 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