"In thinking, we have that element given us which welds our separate individuality into one whole with the cosmos." (Rudolf Steiner, "The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception", 1894)
"It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all." (Rudolf Steiner, "The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception", 1894)
"The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals." (Rudolf Steiner, "Rosicrucian Wisdom", 1907)
"When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power." (Rudolf Steiner, "Paths of Experience", 1934)
"Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is." (Rudolf Steiner, "Study of Man", 1948)
"Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality." (Rudolf Steiner, "Truth and Knowledge", 1963)
"You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means." (Rudolf Steiner, "Bees", 1982)
"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, "Art: An Introductory Reader", 2003)
"He who would know the world, seek first within his being’s depth; he who would truly know himself, develop interest in the world." (Rudolf Steiner)
"Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility." (Rudolf Steiner)
"If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher." (Rudolf Steiner)
"Just as the human soul takes leave of the body... one can truly see in the flying swarm an image of the departing human soul." (Rudolf Steiner)
"Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it." (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)
"To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world." (Rudolf Steiner)
"What may be trivial and commonplace to the understanding is infinitely deep and sublime to the human heart." (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 center of our being." (Rudolf Steiner)
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