{"id":8932,"date":"2018-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/blog\/the-depths-of-the-soul-have-to-stay-awake\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:00:00","slug":"the-depths-of-the-soul-have-to-stay-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/blog\/the-depths-of-the-soul-have-to-stay-awake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Depths of the soul have to stay awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n\n<h2>In spring and summer we lost the self to the shining light of the world; we gave it away to let grow without our doing something to it. Now we have got it back and it becomes more lightfilled every week. The greater the outward darkness, the stronger the inward light is.<u><em><a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"ouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img  alt=\"Mieke Mosmuller\" data-src=\"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1b986eeb82cdfca79e704ad86f68acdc.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h2>In spring and summer we lost the self to the shining light of the world; we gave it away to let grow without our doing something to it. Now we have got it back and it becomes more lightfilled every week. The greater the outward darkness, the stronger the inward light is. It will find its highlight with Christmas. Looking outward we can feel a kind of sadness because of the shortening of the days and the coming of autumn. But this is nothing compared to the joy of enlightening space and time with the growing inner light. The summer will be inward, when outward it will be winter.<\/h2>\n<p><em><br \/>I can belong now to myself<br \/>And shining expand my inner light<br \/>Into the darkness of space and time.<br \/>Going to sleep is what natural being desires; <br \/>Depths of the soul have to stay awake<br \/>And being awake bear sun fervours<br \/>Into cold winter tides.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Ich darf nun mir geh\u00f6ren<br \/>Und leuchtend breiten Innenlicht<br \/>In Raumes- und in Zeitenfinsternis.<br \/>Zum Schlafe dr\u00e4ngt nat\u00fcrlich Wesen;<br \/>Der Seele Tiefen sollen wachen<br \/>Und wachend tragen Sonnengluten<br \/>In kalte Winterfluten.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Blog228.jpg\" alt=\"Mieke Mosmuller\" width=\"450\" height=\"245\"><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This verses were given by Rudolf Steiner in 1912 \/ 1913: <em>Anthroposophischer Seelenkalender.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Depths of the soul have to stay awake by Mieke Mosmuller<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spring and summer we lost the self to the shining light of the world; we gave it away to let grow without our doing something to it. Now we have got it back and it becomes more lightfilled every week. The greater the outward darkness, the stronger the inward light is. It will find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}