{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 236/1924-06-22/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have known people—and their number is by no means small—who out of blissful ignorance thought themselves capable of writing a biography of Goethe. But the fact is that the more deeply one looks into the connections of existence, into the karmic connections of existence, the more do the difficulties increase.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Study of Problems Connected with Karma","site_heading":"Karma's Hidden Work: Sleep, Memory, and Cosmic Intelligence","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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Nehmen Sie das, was ich hier vorgebracht habe in derjenigen Stunde, wo ich Sie ausdrücklich aufgefordert habe, mich nicht verstandesgemäß zu verstehen, sondern die Dinge in Ihr Herz aufzunehmen, und wenn ich wieder reden werde, aus dem Herzen den folgenden Vortrag entgegenzunehmen. Erinnern Sie sich, daß ich das gesagt habe, weil man Karma nicht wirklich erfühlen kann, wenn man sich ihm bloß auf verstandesmäßigem Wege nähern will. 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