Social pessimism
In the previous texts I have given an optimistic view on our social life. It is an idealistic but also realistic possibility in developing true love between people. But it is equally possible to give a pessimistic view on the social status of humanity worldwide. We can feel inside that we have the talent to […]
The threefold spiritual ideal of the human being
The encounter of the one I with another I is an art. It is not a technique, not a science, not an economic principle, not based on thoughts about advantage or disadvantage – it is an art. Not everyone is a born artist; it has something to do with the past. But everyone has the […]
The Good Samaritan
True brotherhood is care for the physical wellbeing of our fellow man. The fight against poverty is part of this. But priority is the care for the body. Parable of The Good Samaritan Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”He said to him, […]
Trust
In this moment, all the political, scientific, social, economic and religious frameworks are forgotten entirely, I have lost everything but love, and I live only as an I, confronted with another I. Forgotten, too, is our multicultural society; I forget all the ideals that are concerned with social life. Just one ideal is left: I […]
The golden cloth of love…
Social optimism can of course not be without boundaries. There has to be the same good intention in the partners in friendship. One cannot be friends on one side only. Still, the power of beginning over and over again has its own effect that is not confined to the one side. True miracles happen when […]
Social optimism
What substance is the material for the social art? The architect uses physical laws to create buildings of stone, wood or whatever. The sculptor has as his substance materials like marble or wood and must know how to form them with the forces of forming. The painter has as a material the paint, but his […]
Social Art
In the 20th century we experienced the awakening of the social feeling in the human being. ‘Prior to that, it had certainly been there in individuals, but had never become a worldwide movement. It developed into communism and socialism. When I think back to the sixties – I was a schoolgirl then – I remember […]
Inner activity
Whenever we wish to be active, we must engage with our will. Whether this action comes about through a personal wish or through a command makes no difference for the nature of willing. When we talk about willing here, we mean becoming active. Willing is force in an even greater measure than feeling. The force […]
Observation of the spirit (inner self-observation)
When we then pass over to an observation of our inner, non-physical life, we must direct our perception not to our body but to our consciousness. We have already shown so- called inner experiences as perceptions of an outer world. If we therefore here speak of inner observation, we always mean the purely inner observation […]
The intuition of the I
In Philosophy, a lot of thoughts have been produced about the human ‘I’. But we can actually never say anything true about it, if we never form our thoughts from the perception of our own I. How can I ever know anything about this peculiar little point that is also the most important one in […]