{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we make the effort to enrich our *I* by bringing together and relating disparate events, we become aware of a force which lives in us already but belongs to our next incarnation. It is easy to be deluded into thinking that the *I* is enriched by brooding within oneself. That is an illusion. We enrich it by entering into aspects of life that lie beneath the surface, and by truly fostering the ability to ponder and reflect about life, instead of being merely engrossed in ourselves. One must take hold of life lovingly and be willing to seek out the relation between remote events for no other purpose than to enrich the *I* and make it stronger. The attempt can be made with the most ordinary situations in life; opportunities are there all the time. Try to let everyday experiences reverberate in such hidden connections. One must of course remain realistic and not read into such connections things they do not contain or try to become more knowledgeable through them. That is not the purpose; what matters is their effect on us, enabling us to experience a force which lives in us in this life in the form of a thought, whose reality will become evident only in our next incarnation.","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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Liebevoll das Leben ergreifen und nicht philiströs Zusammenhänge ablehnen, die keine andere Bedeutung haben, als daß sie eben weit Auseinanderliegendes zusammenfassen, nur um das Ich zu bereichern, das bringt uns Stärke. Versuchen Sie es einmal im allergewöhnlichsten Leben — Sie werden sehen, Gelegenheit dazu gibt Ihnen jede Stunde -, versuchen Sie es im gewöhnlichen Leben, die Dinge, die Sie erleben, in solche geheimnisvolle Anknüpfungen ausklingen zu lassen. Nur muß man selbstverständlich nicht zum Phantasten werden. Zum Phantasten wird man dann, wenn man in solchen geheimnisvollen Zusammenhängen mehr sucht, als sie sind, wenn man durch sie etwas erkennen will. Aber nicht darauf kommt es an, durch sie etwas zu erkennen, sondern sie in sich wirken zu lassen. 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