Appendix I. Faith and Knowledge
GA 154/1914-04-17/p006
·1914-04-17
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English
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In the physical world life is not just toil and work, but slaving and drudgery. Most of this toil and work is not in the sense of “it's been a hard day's work,” but in the sense of unconscious occurrences caused by our thinking—in fact, our whole soul life as it takes its course.
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