{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1913-01-21/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Man is mostly enveloped in a kind of dreaming-sleeping condition. Those who go through the daily routine without thinking about the events they experience are in fact asleep to life, and those who concern themselves with what lies beyond material existence are also those who awaken to physical life. Referring to our earlier considerations, you will remember that spiritual science rightly understood is capable of entering fully into all aspects of human existence. Inasmuch as spiritual science permeates our civilization, humanity will experience an awakening from a sleep of life. Many things that approach the human being appear strange and mysterious, but they represent a riddle more to the feelings than to the dry intellect. A mother standing by the coffin of her child, or the reverse, is such an instance. One has but to concern oneself thoroughly with human existence to realize how people become aware of the riddle of life. People who have lost a sister, a husband, or a wife come to me and say, “I never used to think about death, never concerned myself about what might happen afterwards, but since this relative has been taken from me it is as if he were still here, and this has led me to occupy myself with spiritual science.” Life will bring people to spiritual science. What happens as a result will be richly rewarding because spiritual science can permeate life with certain impulses that it alone can give.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. 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Wir werden sehen, daß die ganze Menschheit, wenn Geisteswissenschaft allmählich immer mehr eindringen kann, auch so etwas erleben wird wie ein Aufwachen aus einer Art von Lebensschlaf. Viele Dinge dringen an den Menschen heran, die zunächst unbekannt und rätselhaft erscheinen, rätselhaft viel mehr für das Gefühl als für den trockenen Verstand. Rätselhaft in gewissem Sinne ist der Augenblick, da eine Mutter an dem Sarge ihres Kindes steht oder umgekehrt. Wenn man sich ein wenig gründlicher zu beschäftigen hat mit dem menschlichen Leben, wird man schon gewahr, wie Rätselvolles im Leben dem Menschen aufgeht. Es kommen oft Menschen zu mir, deren Schwester, deren Mann oder Frau gestorben ist. 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