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If a person now practices earnestly and worthily to be attentive, to pay constant and long attention to that which he wants to be attentive to only out of the inner power of thought, if he turns his interest to things that do not impose themselves on him, to which he turns out of his very own, innermost initiative , he does such exercises as I have described in my book “How to Know Higher Worlds.” The path into the supersensible worlds is a long one, but if a person practices for a long time, he will finally notice that his thinking becomes quite different from what it is in ordinary life. He notices that this thinking begins to acquire an inner vitality. And he notices that he actually has a completely new kind of inner, living thinking in him, thinking that is set in motion from within. One really sees through what develops as a new thinking through effort, through a development; one really sees this when one patiently and gradually sees it arise in the soul: You have your old thinking; your thinking that more or less passively joins in with things, that continues even when you are not making an effort, when you are not somehow exerting your senses or your mind as the basis of this thinking. This thinking continues, it does not sleep. But as if standing above this thinking, observing it going on beside it, like a kind of dream, there then stands the other, the completely bright, never dreamy thinking, which one develops in the way I have just characterized.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. 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Übt sich der Mensch nun ernst und würdig darin, aufmerksam zu sein, dauernd lange aufmerksam zu sein auf dasjenige, auf das er aufmerksam sein will nur aus der inneren Gedankenkraft heraus, wendet er Dingen sein Interesse zu, die sich ihm nicht aufdrängen, denen er sich zuwendet aus ureigenster, innerster Initiative, macht er solche Übungen, wie ich sie in meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten» beschrieben habe, übt der Mensch längere Zeit hindurch, denn der Weg in die übersinnlichen Welten hinein ist ein langer Weg, dann merkt er endlich, dass sein Denken etwas ganz anderes wird, als es im gewöhnlichen Leben ist. Er merkt, dass dieses Denken anfängt, eine innere Lebendigkeit zu bekommen. Und er merkt, dass er eigentlich eine ganz neue Art von innerem, lebendigem, von innerem in Aktivität versetztem Denken in sich hat. Richtig durchschaut man das, was sich da durch Anstrengungen, durch eine Entwicklung, als ein neues Denken entwickelt; richtig schaut man das, wenn man ganz geduldig nach und nach in der Seele heraufsteigen sieht: Du hast dein altes Denken; dein Denken, das sich mehr oder weniger passiv anschließt an die Dinge, das selbst dann noch forttreibt, wenn du dich nicht anstrengst, wenn du nicht irgendwie die Sinne oder den Verstand als Grundlage dieses Denkens anstrengst. Dieses Denken läuft fort, es schläft nicht. 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