Friday, July 9, 2010

The standard of conduct

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“The standard can never be the way all people would act, but rather what, for me, is to be done in each individual case.” — Rudolf Stei...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

The Beatitudes

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And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and t...

A spiritual exercise

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At least once a day repeat 25+ times "I am loved. I am great. I offer my love and my light to those that are around me." As you s...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Anthroposophy: The Redemption of Thinking

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It is as if everything were being done in the middle of the nineteenth century to beguile human beings into believing that thinking must ...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

What the world needs now

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"What the forces of the future need most and what modern civilization possesses least of all is the spirit of truth."...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

The second of two focus lectures for the July 29 meeting of the Rudolf Steiner Study Circle

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      Human and Cosmic Thought: Lecture Three Berlin, January 22, 1914 YESTERDAY I TRIED to set forth those world-outlooks which are poss...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Helen Keller on isolation

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"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. Beyo...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Namaste: "Is this not love?"

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Helen Keller, The Story of My Life , chapter six: I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word "love." ...

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

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"Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Man, Offspring of the World of Stars

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"Ego and Sun are the inner and the outer aspects of the same being. What orbits out there through space as the Sun is the cosmic ...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Meditative Bookends

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"Wisdom is crystallized pain." -- Rudolf Steiner   "Wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may ...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Keeping Faith

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"If we lack confidence and are impatient with life, another truth prevails: the good effects that confidence can bring are ...
Monday, June 7, 2010

The Sun: The flame in which freedom becomes a luminous reality

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"We can grasp the nature of the Sun only when we know something of its nature of spirit and soul. In that realm it is the power tha...

The Long View

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Frederick Douglass [the very model of a modern major hero]: "I have seen dark hours in my life, and I have seen the darkness gradu...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

"Follow Me"

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John 12:23-28: And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto ...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Psalm 118

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O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever....

In Memoriam: Saint Sebastian

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The details of Saint Sebastian's martyrdom were first elaborated by Ambrose of Milan, in his sermon (number XX) on Psalm 118. Ambrose ...

Meditative Bookends

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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."--George Orwell

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"Michaelangelo's Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel" by Dr. Douglas Fields At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses ...