42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II
GA 246/1911-06-06/p006
·1911-06-06
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English
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
Many people don't make such self-discoveries because they don't set out to do so. But it is extremely important for people to make this kind of reflection more often. Because of such a moment when a person comes to the realization: you actually did things in earlier years that you are only now beginning to understand; at that time your mind was not yet mature enough to understand things; at that time you did them, even spoke of them.
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