The Four Principles

GA 265/the_four_principles/p023 ·1906-06-26 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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The fourth principle is that the inner life, through feeling and sensing, kills the thought. - If you easily feel great pain and great joy, the more you develop this inner life, the more you kill the purity of thought. Those who want to think objectively must properly exclude the inner life. Every outflow of the inner life kills the purity of thought.

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