Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Golden Rule of Sadhana

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For every step forward you take in the acquisition of knowledge, take three steps forward in the improvement of your moral character. ...

Our value for the world lies wholly in acts of love

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Rudolf Steiner:    'Our value for the world must be seen to lie wholly in acts of love, not in what is done for the sake of self-per...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The goal of yoga: to become Anthroposophia

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"To disseminate love over the Earth in the greatest measure possible, to promote love on the Earth — that and that alone is wisdo...

"What if this present were the world's last night?" —John Donne, Holy Sonnet #13

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What if this present were the world's last night? Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell, The picture of Christ crucified,...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

From its center the Earth as a star gives the impulse to the human ego.

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  Ex Deo Nascimur       In Christo Morimur       Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus Rudolf Steiner:   "Everything that is conne...

Man in His Macrocosmic Nature. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts #168, #169, #170

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 Ex Deo Nascimur       In Christo Morimur       Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus Rudolf Steiner:   The Cosmos reveals itself to...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Understanding Human Nature

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Rudolf Steiner:   "Human nature cannot be understood unless we are just as conscious of our connection with the stars as of our con...

Our Task in Life

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”  — Ru...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Full Faith, Confidence, and Gratitude

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Rudolf Steiner: "A sentence that we can so often hear people say today, which is abused in its applications as few others, is ...

The Evolution of Justice, Truth, Beauty, and Morality. The Psychic Physiology of the Four Platonic Virtues. A Prayer for Awakening from Sleep.

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The Riddle of Humanity. Lecture 5 of 15. Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, Switzerland, August 6, 1916: Today the essential thing f...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Absolutely everything is relative

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Rudolf Steiner: "...things must be stated in a somewhat absolute manner when they have to be expressed. Life itself will make it ...

"Joy to have merited the Pain —" by Emily Dickinson

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Joy to have merited the Pain — To merit the Release — Joy to have perished every step — To Compass Paradise — Pardon — to look ...

The mission of the Earth: to cultivate love

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Rudolf Steiner: "The mission of our Earth is the cultivation of the principle of love to its highest degree by those beings who ...

Where is man as a being who thinks and remembers? Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts #165, #166, #167

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Rudolf Steiner: With his power to form ideas (thinking) and his experience of memories, man finds himself within the physical wo...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

"Why are we by all creatures waited on?" —John Donne, Holy Sonnet #12

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    Why are we by all creatures waited on? Why do the prodigal elements supply Life and food to me, being more pure than I, Simple, and fu...

The Freedom of Man and the Age of Michael. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts #162, #163, #164

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Rudolf Steiner: In the human faculty of memory there lives the personal image of a cosmic force — a cosmic force that worked upon t...