Address on Eurythmy

Furthermore, I would like to say that eurythmy is also truly human in that the individual does not lose themselves in it as they might in dance, for example, but always remains fully conscious, so that one has the feeling that it is the whole person who is surrendering to these movements. But they do not lose themselves in these movements, as must be the case in all forms of genuine artistic expression. When Goethe says, to characterize his artistic sensibility: When human beings are placed at the summit of nature, they regard themselves as a complete work of art, take harmony, order, measure, and meaning from everything in their environment, and rise to the production of the work of art—then this must apply especially when human beings do not take order, harmony, measure, and meaning not from external nature and does not realize it through external tools, but when he takes it from his own organism and realizes it through it. For man, as a microcosm, contains all the secrets of the world concentrated within himself. And so, by drawing order, measure, harmony, and meaning from his own organism, he must also be, I would say, a perfect image within himself of the order, harmony, measure, and meaning of the macrocosm, the greater world.