Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher. Rudolf Steiner More Quotes by Rudolf Steiner More Quotes From Rudolf Steiner 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 eye spiritual dark Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world. Rudolf Steiner world-love soul love-is All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. Rudolf Steiner soul secret meaningful A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit. Rudolf Steiner health real knowledge Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine. Rudolf Steiner artist doe reality Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act. Rudolf Steiner objectives Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity. And what is destined to happen in the course of evolution will happen no matter what powers rise up against it. Rudolf Steiner karma humanity ideas Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being. Rudolf Steiner knowing spiritual people Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul. Rudolf Steiner epidemics soul men To understand the nature of love — that is to be a Christian! Rudolf Steiner christian In diabetes mellitus the case is as follows: the ego-organization, as it submerges in the astral and etheric realm, is so weakened that it can no longer effectively accomplish its action upon the sugar-substance. The sugar then undergoes the processes in the astral and etheric realms which should take place in the ego-organization.... From all this we see that a real healing process for diabetes mellitus can only be initiated if we are in a position to strengthen the ego-organization of the patient. Rudolf Steiner organization real healing Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit. Rudolf Steiner spirit matter We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature. Rudolf Steiner individual individuality Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution. Rudolf Steiner tasks sake games Everyday something must be achieved inwardly. Rudolf Steiner everyday For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development. Rudolf Steiner moral-development taken spiritual Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament. Rudolf Steiner communication religious men There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art. Rudolf Steiner deceit world art Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas Rudolf Steiner eye ideas thinking We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music. Rudolf Steiner next body memories
