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Constantly to be running in pursuit of sensations does not make us more spiritual. We become more spiritual through the inner, will-permeated work we carry out in our thoughts. This is why meditation, too, consists in not indulging in haphazard thoughts but in holding certain easily envisaged thoughts in the very center of our consciousness, drawing them there with a strong effort of will. And the greater the strength and intensity of this inner radiation of will into the sphere of thinking, the more spiritual we become. When we take in thoughts from the outer material world—and between birth and death we can take in only such thoughts—we become, as you can easily realize, unfree; for we are given over to the concatenations of things and events in the external world; as far as the actual content of the thoughts is concerned, we are obliged to think as the external world prescribes; only when we elaborate the thoughts do we become free in the real sense.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-19/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-12-19","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-19/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-19/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":199,"en_words":205,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But pure thinking may equally be called pure will. Thus from the realm of thinking we reach the realm of will, when we become inwardly free; our thinking attains such maturity that it is entirely irradiated by will; it no longer takes anything in from outside, but its very life is of the nature of will. By progressively strengthening the impulse of will in our thinking we prepare ourselves for what I have called in the *Philosophy of Spiritual Activity*, ‘Moral Imagination’. Moral Imagination rises to the 'Moral Intuitions' which then pervade and illuminate our will that has now become thought, or our thinking that has now become will. In this way we raise ourselves above the sway of the 'necessity' prevailing in the material world, permeate ourselves with the force that is inherently our own, and prepare for Moral Intuition. And everything that can stream into us from the spiritual world has its foundation, primarily, in these Moral Intuitions. 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Man wird nicht dadurch geistiger, daß man möglichst viele Gedanken aus der Umwelt aufnimmt, denn diese Gedanken geben ja doch nur, ich möchte sagen, die Außenwelt, die eine sinnlich-physische ist, in Bildern wieder. Dadurch, daß man möglichst den Sensationen des Lebens nachläuft, dadurch wird man nicht geistiger. Geistiger wird man durch die innere willensgemäße Arbeit innerhalb der Gedanken. Daher besteht auch Meditieren darinnen, daß man sich nicht einem beliebigen Gedankenspiel hingibt, sondern daß man wenige, leicht überschaubare, leicht prüfbare Gedanken in den Mittelpunkt seines Bewußtseins rückt, aber mit einem starken Willen diese Gedanken in den Mittelpunkt seines Bewußtseins rückt. Und je stärker, je intensiver dieses innere Willensstrahlen wird in dem Elemente, wo eben die Gedanken sind, desto geistiger werden wir. Wenn wir Gedanken von der äußeren physisch-sinnlichen Welt aufnehmen — und wir können ja nur solche aufnehmen zwischen Geburt und Tod -, dann werden wir dadurch, wie Sie leicht einsehen können, unfrei, denn wir werden hingegeben an die Zusammenhänge der äußeren Welt; wir müssen dann so denken, wie es uns die äußere Welt vorschreibt, insofern wir nur den Gedankeninhalt ins Auge fassen; erst in der inneren Verarbeitung werden wir frei.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-19/p007"},{"locus":"GA 202/1920-12-19/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Nun gibt es eine Möglichkeit, ganz frei zu werden, frei zu werden in seinem inneren Leben, wenn man den Gedankeninhalt, insofern er von außen kommt, möglichst ausschließt, immer mehr und mehr ausschließt, und das Willenselement, das im Urteilen, im Schlüsseziehen unsere Gedanken durchstrahlt, in besondere Regsamkeit versetzt. Dadurch aber wird unser Denken in denjenigen Zustand versetzt, den ich in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» genannt habe das reine Denken. Wir denken, aber im Denken lebt nur Wille. Ich habe das besonders scharf betont in der Neuauflage der «Philosophie der Freiheit» 1918. Dasjenige, was da in uns lebt, lebt in der Sphäre des Denkens. Aber wenn es reines Denken geworden ist, ist es eigentlich ebensogut als reiner Wille anzusprechen. So daß wir aufsteigen dazu, uns vom Denken zum Willen zu erheben, wenn wir innerlich frei werden, daß wir gewissermaßen unser Denken so reif machen, daß es ganz und gar durchstrahlt wird vom Willen, nicht mehr von außen aufnimmt, sondern eben im Willen lebt. Gerade dadurch aber, daß wir immer mehr und mehr den Willen im Denken stärken, bereiten wir uns vor für das, was ich in der «Philosophie der Freiheit» die moralische Phantasie genannt habe, was aber aufsteigt zu den moralischen Intuitionen, die dann unseren gedankegewordenen Willen oder willegewordenen Gedanken durchstrahlen, durchsetzen. Auf diese Weise heben wir uns heraus aus der physisch-sinnlichen Notwendigkeit, durchstrahlen uns mit dem, was uns eigen ist und bereiten uns vor für die moralische Intuition. Und auf solchen moralischen Intuitionen beruht doch alles das, was den Menschen von der geistigen Welt aus zunächst erfüllen kann. 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