{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-19/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us consider the human being from the opposite pole, that of the will. When does the will present itself with particular clarity through what we do? When we sneeze, let us say, we are also doing something, but we cannot, surely, ascribe to ourselves any definite impulse of will when we sneeze! When we speak, we are doing something in which will is undoubtedly contained. But think how, in speaking, deliberate intent and absence of intent, volition and absence of volition, intermingle. You have to *learn* to speak, and in such a way that you are no longer obliged to formulate each single word by dint of an effort of will; an element of instinct enters into speech. In ordinary life at least, it is so, and it is emphatically so in the case of those who do not strive for spirituality. Garrulous people, who are always opening their mouths in order to say something or other in which very little thought is contained, give others an opportunity of noticing—they themselves, of course, do not notice—how much there is in speech that is instinctive and involuntary. But the more we go out beyond our organic life and pass over to activity that is liberated, as it were, from organic processes, the more do we carry thoughts into our actions and deeds. Sneezing is still entirely a matter of organic life; speaking is largely connected with organic life; walking really very little; what we do with the hands, also very little. And so we come by degrees to actions which are more and more emancipated from our organic life. We accompany such actions with our thoughts, although we do not know how the will streams into these thoughts. If we are not somnambulists and do not go about in this condition, our actions will always be accompanied by our thoughts. We carry our thoughts into our actions, and the more our actions evolve towards perfection, the more are our thoughts being carried into them.","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":335,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-19/p009","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gerald F. 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Nun, wenn wir niesen, so tun wir ja auch etwas sozusagen, aber wir werden nicht in der Lage sein, uns einen besonderen Willensimpuls dabei zuzuschreiben, wenn wir niesen. Wenn wir sprechen, dann tun wir schon etwas, wo in einer gewissen Weise der Wille drinnen liegt. Aber bedenken Sie nur einmal, wie im Sprechen Willentliches und Unwillentliches, Willensgemäßes und Unwillensgemäßes ineinanderlaufen! Sie müssen sprechen lernen und müssen es gerade so lernen, daß Sie nicht mehr jedes einzelne Wort willensgemäß formen müssen, daß gewissermaßen etwas Instinktives hineinkommt in das Sprechen. Für das gewöhnliche Leben ist es wenigstens so, und im Grunde genommen ist es so gerade für diejenigen Menschen, die wenig nach Geistigkeit streben. Schwätzer, die gewissermaßen fortwährend ihren Mund offen haben müssen, um das oder jenes zu sagen, in das nicht viel Gedankliches hineingesandt wird, die lassen den anderen merken - sie selber merken es allerdings nicht -, wieviel Instinktives, Unwillensgemäßes im Sprechen liegt. Aber je mehr wir aus unserem Organischen herausgehen und übergehen zur Tätigkeit, die vom Organischen gewissermaßen losgelöst ist, desto mehr tragen wir in unser Handeln die Gedanken hinein. Das Niesen steckt noch ganz im Organischen drinnen, das Sprechen steckt zum großen Teil im Organischen drinnen, das Gehen schon sehr wenig, dasjenige, was wir mit den Händen vollziehen, auch sehr wenig. Und so geht es allmählich über in immer mehr und mehr vom Organischen in uns losgelöste Handlungen. Diese Handlungen, die verfolgen wir mit unseren Gedanken, wenn wir auch nicht wissen, wie der Wille in diese Handlungen hineinschießt. Und wenn wir nicht gerade Nachtwandler sind und in diesem Zustande uns betätigen, dann werden unsere Handlungen stets von unseren Gedanken begleitet sein. Wir tragen in unser Handeln die Gedanken hinein, und je mehr sich unser Handeln ausbildet, desto mehr tragen wir die Gedanken in unser Handeln hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-19/p009"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-19/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":324,"en_words":335,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4665,"original_word_count":4496,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Gerald F. 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