The heart of the matter

  

Rudolf Steiner, February 7, 1920:  

"Anthroposophically oriented spiritual science will only become what it should be when it succeeds in no longer bringing in things like a predisposition toward mysticism, a remoteness from everyday life, or false idealism, and instead succeeds in carrying out into the world everything that can be taken up in anthroposophically oriented spiritual science: an enlivening of the soul life that carries it out into one's limbs, such that it takes hold of the entire human being — not just their sense of faith or system of belief — and thereby influences the course of their everyday lives. This is the heart of the matter. We must seek in full earnest to achieve this."

Source: February 7, 1920. GA 196. What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times, p. 168