{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is natural that a person, who during his life begins to sense his *I*, begins as it were to awaken consciously in his *I*, should want to reach insight and clarity about it and its relation to the world. There is at the present time a strong longing and also a widespread striving to attain such insight. As people experience this longing for clarity about their own self, they encounter the many pitfalls and hazards bound up with the quest for self-knowledge. People tend to assume that they are seeking a more or less simple entity. The assumption that the human *I* is fairly uncomplicated has caused much disillusionment and made people turn to the kind of guidance to be found in the writings of Ralph Waldo Trine and others, a guidance sought by many today because of the belief that by delving into their inner being they will come to know themselves better and gain more insight and security in life.[^1] What they actually experience is that self-knowledge is diminished rather than enhanced by embarking on such a path. If they endure this disillusionment which is already hard to bear, the pitfalls and hazards become all the greater.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"The I Across Incarnations: Thought, Will, and Hidden Connections","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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Man kann ja sagen, daß die Menschen, indem sie Selbsterkenntnis anstreben, mit Recht den Glauben haben, sie gingen richtig, wenn sie als den Inhalt dieser Selbsterkenntnis ein mehr oder weniger einfaches Wesen in sich vermuten. Allein gerade dieser Glaube, daß das menschliche Selbst, das menschliche Ich, ein recht einfaches Wesen ist, der ist es, der in der Gegenwart vielen Menschen schwere, schwere Enttäuschungen bringt. Unter diesem Glauben beginnen die Menschen, ich will sagen, sich mit solchen Führungen, wie sie gegeben sind in Waldo Trines oder in anderen Auseinandersetzungen und Betrachtungen, zu befassen. Es sind ja viele Menschen der Gegenwart, die auf solchen Wegen suchen. Sie glauben gewissermaßen sich dadurch besser zu erkennen, daß sie in sich eindringen, und sie glauben, dadurch mehr Klarheit und mehr Sicherheit für das Leben zu gewinnen. Wenn man sich nicht damit bekannt macht, daß man zunächst schon die starke Enttäuschung erleben kann, daß die Selbsterkenntnis fürs erste einen von sich selber weiter wegbringt, als man früher gewesen ist, bevor man diese Selbsterkenntnis angestrebt hat, wenn man diese Enttäuschung schon schwer ertragen kann, wenn man es nicht ertragen kann, dann werden die Klippen und Klüfte um so größer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-10/p005"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p004"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":309,"en_words":200,"ratio":0.65,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 176/1917-07-10/p005"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8241,"original_word_count":8922,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Aspects of Human Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/19170710p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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