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Here you will find our favourite inspirations from Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical impulse. Send us yours to add, or tell us what you think about Creative Understanding...

'Stars once spoke to man.

It is world destiny that they are silent now.

To become aware of this silence can be pain for earth humanity.

But in the deepening silence

there grows and ripens what human beings speak to the stars.

To become aware of this speaking

Can become strength for Spirit Man.'

'We only learn to ask questions when we are able to develop the inner balance that allows reverence and devotion to be retained when it comes to the sacred spheres of life, and when we are able to have an element in us that always seeks to remain independent of even our own judgement in relation to anything that comes to us from those spheres.

We only learn to ask questions by being able to develop an expectant mood, enabling life to reveal something to us; by being able to wait; by feeling some hesitation in applying our own judgement especially in relation to anything that should flow in a sacred way from the sacred spheres of existence; by not judging but asking questions, not only of people who may be able to tell us, but above all of the world of the spirit.

We should face that world not with our opinions but with our questions, indeed in a questioning mood and attitude.'

- Rudolf Steiner

'If we are to contribute at all to human salvation, we must not be pessimistic; we must believe in our work. We must have the courage to believe we are really capable of bringing about what is right.

To me, it sounds self-destructive to say: we have ideas that could be put into practice but I don’t believe it is possible.

The question is not whether our ideas are realistic but simply how to implement them.'

- Rudolf Steiner

'If you wish to build a ship with others,

Do not begin by gathering timber with them;

Rather awaken in them

Longing for the sea.'

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.'

- Howard Thurman

'Nietzsche once said of Michelet that his was the sort of enthusiasm that waited until he took off his coat....Real enthusiasm, however, has no time to take off its coat. It does not notice that it is sweating in a hot coat.

That is the enthusiasm we need, my dear friends! Enthusiasm that overwhelms us so that we forget we have our coats on...We need enthusiasm. Enthusiasm supports the god within. God is inherent in the word itself.'

- Rudolf Steiner

'It was in this spirit that we came together here; and it is in this spirit that we shall go away again, to live in the outside world and perhaps to pass on to others much of what it has been possible to give here as an incentive, even if only in outline, and thus to bring it to new flower. We shall at the same time strive so to work when we are scattered that, although physically separated, we shall be in harmony with one another in living thought, in feeling, and in all our willing. Then shall we be rightly united in that Spirit which ought to be brought to mankind through Anthroposophy. In this Spirit we are about to separate after having been together for a while; in this Spirit we shall remain united in soul; and in this Spirit we shall meet again when it is meant to be.'