{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-19/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How, in reality, do we become inwardly more and more spiritual?—Not by taking in as many thoughts as possible from the surrounding world, for these thoughts merely reproduce in pictures this outer world, which is a physical, material world. 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,"title":"III. The Path to Freedom and Love and Their Significance in World Happenings","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-19","location":null,"word_count":205,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-19/p007","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gerald F. 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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. 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