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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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"In the course of human evolution, the true Earth-mission is the evolution of love."
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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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"Socrates says: 'When the soul, returning into itself, reflects, it goes straight to what is pure and everlasting and immortal.'"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Were the ability to get on with one another not a basic part of human nature, no external laws would be able to implant it in us. It is only because human individuals ARE one in spirit that they can live out their lives side by side."
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"The divine lives in man, but in a human way. It is the force urging man to make himself ever more and more divine."
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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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"Moral goodness has its eternal value in itself."
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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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"Human individuals, with the moral ideas belonging to their nature, are the prerequisites of a moral world order."
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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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"Eternal truths are symbolically expressed in traditional myths."
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"All the individual forms that make their appearances belong to one single whole."
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"The eternal harmony of the Cosmos is in the human soul."
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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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"The manifold diversity of the things into which divine unity has been poured aspires towards unity and harmony through love."
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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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"God has poured Himself into the universe."
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"We cannot think out the concept of man completely without coming upon the free spirit as the purest expression of human nature."
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"The more the soul fills itself with the true and the good, the wider and the more comprehensive becomes the eternal in it."
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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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- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
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