THE ESSENTIAL STEINER
Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott
Basic writings of Rudolf Steiner, including 'Knowledge, Nature and Spirit', 'Spiritual Anthropology', 'Historical Vision', 'Esoteric Christianity' and 'Society and Education'
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"All the individual forms that make their appearances belong to one single whole."
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"When one considers the words, 'Know thyself', in the Greek, they do not mean that you stare into your own inner being, but that you fructify yourself with what streams into you from the spiritual world. 'Know thyself' means: Fructify yourself with the content of the spiritual world!"
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"Human individuals, with the moral ideas belonging to their nature, are the prerequisites of a moral world order."
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"If we look with rational insight more deeply into things, the eternal element in them is revealed to us."
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"The soul is the mother of the divine. Unconsciously it leads man to the divine, with the inevitability of a natural force."
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"Soul and spirit are indeed revealed in what appears outwardly as matter."
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"When I observe a stone, a plant, an animal, a man, I should be able to remember that in each of them an eternal reality expresses itself."
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"The Christ Event is immediately relevant wherever human fellowship unfolds."
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"Eternal truths are symbolically expressed in traditional myths."
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"Where is this self? Is it within our skin? No, it is poured into the entire world, and what is in the world is linked to the self."
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"Eternal reality lives in all things."
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"Socrates says: 'When the soul, returning into itself, reflects, it goes straight to what is pure and everlasting and immortal.'"
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"Spiritual life embraces everything which in one way or another lifts us out of our solitary egoism and draws us into community with other human beings."
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"The harmony of the world arises from opposites held in tension, as in the lyre and the bow. What depths are hidden in this image! By the harmonizing of divergent forces, unity is attained."
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"Mankind has descended to the profoundest depths of personal necessity, of physical personality. But just such an egotistic, utilitarian principle had to come sometime, because through it, the ascending course of all human evolution will be facilitated."
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"The most profound idea of Christianity [is] that the Christ is the Spirit of the earth and that the earth is His body or vesture."
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"Every human fellowship is inwardly related to the whole of humanity and to the wider world."
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"Christ did not speak only during His time on earth; His utterance continues, and we must continue to listen for it."
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"The whole world is divine."
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"Beings develop. God reveals Himself in their development. The process of evolution is the resurrection of God from the tomb."
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"The eternal harmony of the Cosmos is in the human soul."
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"God has poured Himself into the universe."
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"Everything man undertakes in order to awaken the eternal within him, he does in order to enhance the value of the world's existence…The force of his cognition is a higher, creative force in nature."
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"In the human soul are needs which cause people to seek each other out; people are united by experiencing similar needs."
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"We enter the world as children bearing some quality which is important for the world, for the social life of humanity."
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