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Pearls of Thought, Words of Wisdom
A Selection of Quotations by Rudolf Steiner
Paperback
August 2015
9781855844131
More details
- Publisher
Rudolf Steiner Press - Published
1st August 2015 - ISBN 9781855844131
- Language English
- Pages 82 pp.
- Size 5" x 7"
$13.00
“Truth is simple for only those who first wrestle their way through multiplicity. It is like a thread of many pearls.” – Rudolf Steiner
Like pearls in the oyster, pearls of thought are easily overlooked. Lying hidden in texts, they keep their light under a bushel, serving the greater framework and context. But if we draw them out, they begin to shine and reveal their translucent facets and intrinsic harmony.
In this meditative treasure, the editor has harvested and threaded together such pearls from Rudolf Steiner’s words, creating new textures and striking panoramas. Dynamic constellations of thought arise, allowing us unusual and surprising access to Steiner’s spiritual and philosophical thinking. In contrast to the prevailing view that meaning arises only in context, these self-sufficient verbal universes show us that the opposite can also be true.
The pearls of thought in this compact pocket book acquire enhanced meaning in isolation, becoming mysteriously independent of the thoughts and phrases that precede or follow them.
C O N T E N T S:
About this Book by Daniel Baumgartner
1. Before anything else can be grasped, thinking itself must be
2. The world’s content of ideas is founded on itself
3. WE do not act because we should but because we have the will to
4. A consciously knowing being cannot be unfree
5. To err is to be human
6. Overcoming our sensory nature through the spirit is the goal of art and science
7. Nothing actually sunders itself from the rest of the world
8. The source of morality is spiritual pleasure in what we ourselves engender
9. We can only find nature outside us if we first know it within us
10. Outer freedom in social interaction depends upon the inner freedom of each individual
11. On occasion truth is destined to sound paradoxical in relation to contemporary realities
12. With our I, you see, we are quite alone
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Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner (b. Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner, 1861–1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. Steiner termed his spiritual philosophy anthroposophy, meaning “wisdom of the human being.” As an exceptionally developed seer, he based his work on direct knowledge and perception of spiritual dimensions. He initiated a modern, universal “spiritual science” that is accessible to anyone willing to exercise clear and unbiased thinking. From his spiritual investigations, Steiner provided suggestions for the renewal of numerous activities, including education (general and for special needs), agriculture, medicine, economics, architecture, science, philosophy, Christianity, and the arts. There are currently thousands of schools, clinics, farms, and initiatives in other fields that involve practical work based on the principles Steiner developed. His many published works feature his research into the spiritual nature of human beings, the evolution of the world and humanity, and methods for personal development. He wrote some thirty books and delivered more than six thousand lectures throughout much of Europe. In 1924, Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches around the world.
