The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p012 ·1923-05-21 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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 Erinnerungsaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmenden» (From participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

But if you want to get to the “inner word” in this way, it is not enough to just get a superficial idea of the soul life of another person; you have to go deeper. And this can only be achieved if, while listening, [...] you get used to suppressing your own feelings and opinions, even if they are completely opposite to those of the other person. Only then will you hear the soul of the other person through the words – you have to listen in.

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