If you don’t understand something, it’s better not to judge at all than to condemn.
Knowledge without insight leads to action without responsibility.
And we come to recognize that this life that we are currently living is dependent on previous earthly lives, between which there were other lives between death and new birth in a spiritual world.
Art is eternal, its forms change.
If you are looking for yourself, look outside in the world. If you search the world, search within yourself.
It will always be found that those who really know are the humblest of people.
The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.
In the future every human shall see a hidden divinity in every fellow human.
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment.
Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism… Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man’s inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.
In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself.
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.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own 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.
The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks.
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
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.
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.
Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.
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.
Each individual is a species unto him/herself.
Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.
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.
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
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.
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us… We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.
It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives.
When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.
We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.
If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child’s experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled – thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
To be free is to be capable of thinking one’s own thoughts – not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one’s deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one’s individuality.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of peoples souls when they are still very young, and this will happen in a roundabout way through the living body.
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
