{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266a/1908-11-08/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Anger and annoyance felt on various occasions, for example, about the ever-increasing noise in the city, must be combated by the esotericist in a different way than is attempted today. Books are now being written about the possible elimination of noise in cities, and associations are being founded for this purpose. However, it is not a matter of dampening city noise, but of developing the strength within oneself to shut it out from within through meditation and peace of mind. It is not the noise that is harmful, but the demons that pervade our cities, and these are kept in check, so to speak, by the noise. One must be able to live in the midst of noise without allowing it to provoke anger. The esotericist achieves this by meditating on great words that have been given to us, immersing himself intensively in them, for example in the first four sentences of “Light on the Way.” Then one will feel how, little by little, the noise becomes quieter and more distant and finally disappears completely, and with it the anger. Anger also has a highly detrimental influence on the physical body of the esotericist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Transforming Faults Through Meditative Practice and Objectivity","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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