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He can observe how the experience of hunger in its first stage relates to the experience of satiety. The sense of self is heightened by the experience of hunger and dulled by the experience of satiety in these first stages. The need for rest after satiation is connected with this. It is only at the further stages, when hunger intervenes destructively in the organization, that it becomes different. In the further pursuit of this observation, the realization arises that the word 'I' does not denote a fulfillment of the soul's life, but rather a longing, a desire-like quality that awaits fulfillment. Thoughts that one cherishes only strengthen the sense of self when they are ideals, when desire lives in them. The “I” is experienced by ordinary consciousness in the sphere of desires. 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The more man fills himself with thoughts about the world, the more the I-experience recedes. But if the 'I' is to be strongly experienced, then the thoughts about the world must come out of the soul. In these thoughts, however, man experiences himself as in his 'inner day'; in the 'I' he experiences himself at first as in the 'inner night'. But the inner day does not solve the riddle of the night for him. Another light must shine in the inner night. The “I” cannot satisfy its longing for light from the sunshine of the outside world. But it longs for sunshine. It lives in the longing for sunshine, intuitively. As self, the “I” longs for fulfillment from selflessness. — It is always on the way to bringing forth the stream of selflessness from the source of selfishness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p002","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"18_psychological_aphorisms","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p002","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p002"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":144,"en_words":150,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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No matter what one may think about the “I”; every interpretation, every definition of the “I”, however they may be formulated, they are only descriptions of this desire. These descriptions can often express the opposite of reality. Then they are as if a hungry person were to reinterpret his hunger as something else. As long as the sense of self is experienced in ordinary consciousness, it remains a desire for spiritual fulfillment. It only ceases to be this when the light of sense knowledge is penetrated by the light of spirit knowledge. Soul experience from the sense world makes the self into desire; soul experience from the spirit world makes the self into the content of being. The first human experience of the spiritual world lies in the moral impulses. These do not come from the world of the senses. They are willed in a thinking that originates outside the world of the senses. They are willed in the light of “pure thinking”. Living in true moral impulses is the beginning of experiencing the spiritual world. The continuation of the activity in which the soul dwells in the experience of moral impulses leads to the knowledge of the spiritual world. Every human being who wants to do so thus views the methods of spiritual research. It is only necessary that he also recognize them. Then the selfishness of the ego melts away into the selflessness of the knowledge of the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":256,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p003","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"18_psychological_aphorisms","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":207,"en_words":256,"ratio":1.24,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Ordinary consciousness confuses this desire with the I itself. One must lift oneself out of the body with a mental jolt in order to satisfy the desire that the body creates in the spirit. The body is inconceivable without the spirit, for it is only the manifestation of the desire for the spirit. — Those who understand the body correctly develop the ability to experience the spirit as a matter of course. Scientific materialism arises from a lack of knowledge of the material world. — A lack of knowledge of the human body leads to the assumption that the body summarizes its experiences in the word “I”; it only summarizes its desire in this word. Understanding of the bodily basis of the “I” transforms itself through itself into understanding of the spiritual nature of the “I”. The sense of self that the body develops is the revelation of selfless devotion to the spiritual world, which reveals the true character of the “I”.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"18_psychological_aphorisms","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":185,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Dazu gelangt er erst, wenn er das Ich-Erlebnis allmählich in innerer Anschauung in die Reihe anderer Innenerlebnisse hineinstellen lernt. - Er kann beachten, wie sich das Hungererlebnis auf seiner ersten Stufe zu dem Sättigungserlebnis verhält. Das Ich-Gefühl wird auf diesen ersten Stufen durch das Hungererlebnis gesteigert, durch das Sättigungserlebnis abgestumpft. Das Ruhebedürfnis nach der Sättigung hängt damit zusammen. Erst auf den weiteren Stufen, wo der Hunger in die Organisation zerstörend eingreift, wird es anders. Im weiteren Verfolg dieser Beobachtung ersteht die Erkenntnis, daß mit dem Worte «Ich » nicht eine Erfüllung des Seelenlebens, sondern eine Sehnsucht, ein Begehrungs-artiges bezeichnet wird, das auf die Erfüllung wartet. - Gedanken, die man hegt, verstärken das Ich-Gefühl nur dann, wenn sie Ideale sind, wenn also das Begehren in ihnen lebt. - Das «Ich» wird vom gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein in der Sphäre der Begehrungen erlebt. Es ist daher auf dieser Stufe ein Verlangen nach Erfüllung, ein Quell der Selbstsucht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p001"},{"locus":"GA 36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p002","passage_number":2,"text":"Man kann das «Ich» auch die «Nacht des gewöhnlichen Bewußtseins» nennen. Je mehr sich der Mensch mit Gedanken von der Welt erfüllt, desto mehr tritt das Ich-Erlebnis zurück. Wenn aber das «Ich» stark erlebt werden soll, dann müssen die Gedanken von der Welt aus der Seele heraus. In diesen Gedanken aber erlebt sich der Mensch wie in seinem «inneren Tage»; im «Ich» erlebt er sich zunächst wie in der «inneren Nacht». Aber der innere Tag löst ihm nicht das Rätsel der Nacht. Ein anderes Licht muß in die innere Nacht hineinscheinen. Das «Ich» kann sein Lichtverlangen an dem Sonnenschein der Außenwelt nicht befriedigen. Aber nach Sonnenschein verlangt es. Ahnend lebt es in dem Verlangen nach Sonnenschein. Als Selbst verlangt das Ich Erfüllung aus der Selbstlosigkeit. — Es ist immer auf dem Wege, aus dem Quell der Selbstsucht den Strom der Selbstlosigkeit erstehen zu lassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p002"},{"locus":"GA 36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Das Verlangen nach Geist-Erkenntnis ist der Inhalt des Ich-Erlebens. Man mag über das «Ich» denken, wie man will; jede Deutung, jede Definition des «Ich», sie mögen wie immer lauten: sie sind doch nur die Umschreibungen dieses Verlangens. Diese Umschreibungen können oft das Gegenteil der Wirklichkeit ausdrücken. Dann sind sie so, wie wenn ein Hungriger seinen Hunger in irgend etwas anderes uminterpretierte. - So lange das Ich-Gefühl im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein erlebt wird, bleibt es Verlangen nach Geist-Erfüllung. Es hört erst auf, dies zu sein, wenn das Licht der Sinne-Erkenntnis durchdrungen wird von dem Licht der Geist-Erkenntnis. Seelen-Erlebnis aus Sinne-Welt macht das Ich zum Begehren; Seelen-Erlebnis aus Geistes-Welt macht das Ich zum SeinsInhalt. - In den moralischen Impulsen west das erste menschliche Erlebnis der Geistes-Welt. Sie stammen nicht aus der Sinne-Welt. Sie werden in einem Denken gewollt, das außerhalb der Sinne-Welt urständet. Im Lichte des «reinen Denkens» werden sie gewollt. - Leben in wahren Moral-Impulsen ist der Anfang des Geistes-Welt-Erlebens. Fortsetzung der Tätigkeit, in welcher die Seele west im Erleben der Moral-Impulse, führt zur Erkenntnis der Geistes-Welt. Jeder Mensch, der sittlich will, schaut so die Methoden der Geistesforschung an. Es ist nur notwendig, daß er sie auch anerkenne. Dann verrinnt die Selbstsucht des Ich in die Selbstlosigkeit der Geistes-Welt-Erkenntnis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p003"},{"locus":"GA 36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Ist das «Ich» im Körper des Menschen? — Nein. — Der Körper erzeugt mit allen seinen Tätigkeiten nur das Verlangen nach dem Ich. Das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein verwechselt dieses Verlangen mit dem Ich selbst. Man muß sich mit einem seelischen Ruck aus dem Körper heben, um das Verlangen, das der Körper erzeugt, im Geiste zu befriedigen. - Der Körper ist ohne den Geist nicht denkbar, denn er ist nur die Offenbarung des Verlangens nach dem Geiste. — Wer den Körper recht versteht, in dem bildet sich wie etwas Selbstverständliches die Fähigkeit des Geist-Erlebens. Wissenschaftlicher Materialismus entsteht aus mangelhafter Erkenntnis der materiellen Welt. — Mangelhafte Erkenntnis des MenschenKörpers vermeint, der Körper fasse seine Erlebnisse in dem Worte «Ich» zusammen; er faßt nur sein Verlangen in dieses Wort zusammen. Verständnis der körperlichen Grundlage des «Ich » setzt sich dutch sich selbst in das Verständnis der Geist-Natur des Ich um. Die Selbstheit, die der Körper entwickelt, ist die Offenbarung der selbstlosen Hingabe an die Geistes-Welt, die den wahren Charakter des Ich enthüllt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/36/18_psychological_aphorisms/p004"}],"beads":[{"from":[1],"to":[1],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[2],"to":[2],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[3],"to":[3],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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