In ordinary consciousness, we combine our thoughts logically and thus make use of thinking to know the external sensory world. Now, however, we allow thinking to enter into a kind of musical element, but one that is undoubtedly a knowledge element; we become aware of a spiritual rhythm underlying all things; we penetrate into the world by beginning to perceive it in the spirit. From abstract, dead thinking, from mere image-thinking, our thinking becomes a thinking enlivened in itself. This is the significant transition that can be made from abstract and merely logical thinking to a living thinking about which we have the feeling it is capable of shaping a reality, just as we recognize our process of growth as a living reality. — Rudolf Steiner
The Tension Between East and West
10 lectures at the Second International Congress of the Anthroposophical Movement, Vienna, Austrai, June 1–12, 1922 (CW 83) ... and many, many other books can be found at SteinerBooks
The Tension Between East and West
10 lectures at the Second International Congress of the Anthroposophical Movement, Vienna, Austrai, June 1–12, 1922 (CW 83) ... and many, many other books can be found at SteinerBooks
