Rudolf Steiner
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.Collection: Prayer
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.Collection: Spiritual
When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.Collection: Perception
Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.Collection: Fundamentals
When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.Collection: Wise
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.Collection: Nature
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)Collection: Art
Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.Collection: Inspire
In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.Collection: Thinking
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.Collection: Character
One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.Collection: Spiritual
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.Collection: Lying
It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."Collection: Home
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.Collection: Spiritual
We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.Collection: Animal
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?Collection: Lonely
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.Collection: Stones
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.Collection: Individuality
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.Collection: Games
All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.Collection: Sight
It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.Collection: Responsibility
We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.Collection: Memories
Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.Collection: Mistake
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.Collection: Knowledge Of God
I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.Collection: Air
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.Collection: Reality
Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!Collection: Thinking
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.Collection: Doe
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.Collection: Soul
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.Collection: Communication
We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.Collection: New Year
Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.Collection: Rose
Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.Collection: Unique
Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.Collection: Ego
Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.Collection: Everyday
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own characterCollection: Character
If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.Collection: Believe
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.Collection: Believe
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.Collection: World
Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.Collection: Teacher
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.Collection: Men
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.Collection: Humility
Each individual is a species unto him/herself.Collection: Individual
Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.Collection: Artist
The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.Collection: School
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.Collection: Writing
Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.Collection: Men
You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.Collection: Heart
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.Collection: Teacher