{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we see around us growth and decay; we can trace it in the plant kingdom and in the mineral kingdom as well as in the animal kingdom. What is the meaning of it all? Ever an arising, ever a passing away all around us! What is the meaning of this arising and this passing away? When we consider our own life, and see how we have lived through years and decades, we can recognise there also this coming into being and decay. When we call to mind the days of our childhood: they are vanished and only the memory of them remains. This stirs within us anxious questionings about life. The most important thing is that we ourselves have progressed a little through it, that we have become wiser. Usually, however, it is only when we have accomplished something, that we know how it ought to have been done. If we are no longer in a position to do a thing better, we still know how much better it might have been done, so that actually our mistakes become a part of our life; but it is just through our mistakes and errors that we gain our widest experiences.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Sie können es für das Pflanzen- und das Mineralreich sowohl wie auch für das Tierreich verfolgen, dieses Entstehen und Vergehen. Was ist nun der Sinn des Ganzen ? Immer entsteht, immer vergeht etwas um uns herum. Was ist der Sinn dieses Entstehens und Vergehens? Wenn wir in unser eigenes Menschenleben hineinblicken und da sehen, wie wir die Jahre und Jahrzehnte hindurch gelebt haben, so haben wir auch in unserem eigenen Leben Entstehen und Vergehen gesehen. Wenn wir uns entsinnen an die frühere Zeit der Jugend: dahingeschwunden ist sie, und nur als eine Erinnerung ist sie uns geblieben. Das, was da geblieben ist, ist im Grunde nur eine Anregung zu einer bangen Lebensfrage. Wir fragen ja, wenn wir dieses oder jenes getan haben: Was ist daraus geworden, was ist entstanden dadurch, daß wir das oder jenes getan haben? Das Wichtigste dabei ist, daß wir selber dabei ein Stückchen weitergekommen sind, daß wir gescheiter geworden sind. Meist ist die Sache aber so, daß wir erst dann, wenn die Dinge von uns gemacht worden sind, wissen, wie sie hätten gemacht werden sollen. Dann wissen wir, daß alles viel besser hätte gemacht werden können, wenn wir nicht mehr in der Lage sind, es besser zu machen, so daß wir tatsächlich in unser Leben einschließen all die Fehler, die wir machen. 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