Rudolf Steiner Quotes

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Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.

Rudolf Steiner
Only to the extent that a man has emancipated himself... from all that is generic, does he count as a free spirit within a human community. No man is all genus, none is all individuality.

Rudolf Steiner
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

Rudolf Steiner
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

Rudolf Steiner
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

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Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Rudolf Steiner
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

Rudolf Steiner
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

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Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.

Rudolf Steiner
The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.

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To understand the nature of love – that is to be a true Christian.

Rudolf Steiner
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.

Rudolf Steiner
Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

Rudolf Steiner