Sunday, March 26, 2023

Do all the good you can

 



Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can.

              — John Wesley






Rudolf Steiner:  "We must seek to enlighten people by every means at our disposal; that is what is important today."







May wisdom shine through me


May love radiate from me


May strength course through me


That in me may arise


A helper of humankind


A consecrated servant


Selfless and true





               — Rudolf Steiner










Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.


"Eons cannot erase the traces of my days on Earth."
— Goethe




The Esoteric Lord's Prayer, by Rudolf Steiner


Father,

You who were, are, and will be in our inmost being:


May your name be glorified and praised in us.


May your kingdom grow in our deeds and in our inmost lives.


May we perform your will as you, Father, lay it down in our inmost being.

 
You give us spiritual nourishment, the bread of life, superabundantly in all the changing conditions of our lives.


Let our mercy toward others make up for the sins done to us.


You do not allow the tempter to work in us beyond the capacity of our strength.


For no temptation can live in your being, Father, and the tempter is only appearance and delusion, from which you lead us, Father, through the light of knowledge.


May your power and glory work in us through all periods and ages of time. 

Amen






With the blessing of God all things are good

In Gottes Segen ist alles gelegen





Where I start each day:
The Himalayan Institute's meditation shrine
Photo by Ransom Hare





May God's protecting, blessing ray
Fill my growing soul,
That it may lay hold of
Strengthening forces everywhere.
My soul shall vow
To awaken to full life in itself
The power of Love,
And thus see God's strength
On its life's path,
And act in accordance with God
With all that it has.

                    — Rudolf Steiner

















"We must": Michael's Mission, p. 195. Another translation of this lecture:

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