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Once we have achieved this, we realize that those experiences that still come to us from the physical world do have value—but value for us alone. Then, for example, colors tell us that they are warning signs, advisors who tell us what we do not yet have, what we still have to achieve. And from the sounds we recognize physical desires. We then calmly allow these experiences to affect our soul in their true meaning.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Spiritual Discernment and the Rosicrucian Path to Higher Worlds","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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