{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus the law of karma itself may be a source of consolation if we accustom ourselves to set an event not only at the end, but at the beginning of a series of events. This consolation exists only if we learn to study life methodically, and to place things in the right relationship to one another as cause and effect. If we carry out these observations thoroughly, we shall notice events in the life of a man which take place with a certain regularity; others, again, appear quite irregularly in the same life. He who observes human life carefully—not simply in a superficial way—may find remarkable connections in it. Unfortunately, the phenomena of human life are at present observed for only short periods of time, hardly even for a few years; people are not accustomed to connect what has happened after a long period of time, with what may have happened previously as the cause. There are very few at the present day who study the beginning and the end of a man's life in their relationship to each other; nevertheless this relationship is extraordinarily instructive.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The Nature and Significance of Karma in the Personal and Individual; and in Humanity, the Earth and the Universe","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-16","location":null,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p017","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100516p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Nur werden die Erscheinungen des menschlichen Lebens leider heute nur über kurze Zeitspannen, kaum über einige Jahre, beobachtet; und was nach einer größeren Anzahl von Jahren eintritt, das ist man nicht gewohnt, mit dem in Zusammenhang zu bringen, was etwa früher als Ursache vorhanden sein konnte. Daher werden nur wenige Menschen sich heute finden, die Anfang und Ende des Menschenlebens in einen gewissen Zusammenhang bringen. Dennoch ist dieser Zusammenhang außerordentlich lehrreich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p020"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Nehmen wir an, wir haben ein Kind in den ersten sieben Jahren seines Lebens so erzogen, daß also wir nicht das getan haben, was gewöhnlich geschieht, daß wir nicht von dem Glauben ausgegangen sind: Wenn einer ein ordentlicher Mensch im Leben werden soll, muß er so und so sein, muß unseren Anschauungen von einem ordentlichen Menschen unbedingt entsprechen. Denn in einem solchen Falle würden wir dem Kinde möglichst genau das alles eintrichtern wollen, was es eben in unserem Sinne zu einem ordentlichen Menschen machen sollte. 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