QUOTES
To
truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself,
take real interest in the world.
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.
A
healthy social life arises when the whole community finds its reflection in the
mirror of person's soul, and when the virtue of each person lives in the whole
community.
A
healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community
finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is
living
CHILDREN
“Receive
the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”
COMMUNITY
“In
a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community
will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of
the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to
his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of
his own work done, but out of work done by the others.”
CREATIVITY
“Unless
we first permeate ourselves with the realization that only through the artistic
can we penetrate into the realm of truth, there can be no question of acquiring
a real understanding of the supersensible world in accordance with the present
age of the conscious soul.”
DIVERSITY
“Nothing
will hasten humanity in its own downfall more than the propagation of ideals based
on race, nation and blood.”
EDUCATION
“Our
task is to educate the human being in such a way that he or she can bring to expression
in the right way that which is living in the whole human being, and on the other
side that which puts him/her into the world in the right way.”
FREEDOM
“To
live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the
other person's will, is the fundamental maxim of free men.”
“Our
highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves
to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense
of truth, and a feeling of responsibility — these three forces are the very nerve
of education.”
HEALTH
“A
real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces
the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.”
INNER
PEACE
“What each individual really needs can only be known by himself; what
he should contribute he can determine through his insight into the situation as
a whole.”
INTERCONNECTION
“People
must come closer to one another than they used to be, each becoming an awakener
of everyone he meets. Modern human beings entering life today have stored up far
too much karma not to feel a destined connection with every individual they encounter.
In earlier ages, souls were younger and had not formed so many karmic ties. Now
it has become necessary to be awakened not just by nature, but by the human beings
with whom we are karmically connected and whom we want to seek.”
LIVING
A LIFE OF COMPASSION
“Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through
which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain
concealed.”
LOVE
The
plant-kingdom breathes out oxygen; man breathes out love.”
SPIRITUALITY
“Seek
the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you
to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual
greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.”
