That is why one of the very first conditions for gaining a proper relationship to the spiritual world is a certain inner flexibility, a certain ability to adapt to the most diverse individualities, a constant capacity to step outside oneself and enter into other individualities. If one truly wishes to express with a certain accuracy what exists in the supersensible world and what lives within it, as is the case with one who has passed through the NDE. He must above all be thoroughly healed of what might be called the earthly delusion of the ego.
"He must have come to the realization of thinking as little as possible about oneself, of placing oneself as little as possible at the center of one’s view of the world",
said Rudolf Steiner (Lecture VII given in Dornach, 1915).
If man has a strong tendency to speak much about oneself, to think much about oneself, then one must overcome this tendency, for this speaking much about oneself, this thinking much about oneself, is truly the worst path to self-knowledge.
If invidual has a tendency to talk a lot about oneself, to judge all things in such a way that one is concerned above all with how one positions oneself in the world, what one means to the world: if he has this tendency, then one is ill-suited to find one’s way in the spiritual world or to express anything of the spiritual world.
Inga kommentarer:
Skicka en kommentar