{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 53/1904-12-15/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Furthermore, it is necessary that man rid himself of something that is difficult to cast aside in our civilization, namely, the urge to learn “what is new.” This has tremendous influence on the soul-organ. If one cannot get hold of a newspaper fast enough and tell the news to somebody else, if a person also cannot keep what he has seen and heard to himself and cannot suppress the desire to pass it on, his soul will never achieve any degree of development. It is also necessary that one acquire a certain definite manner of judging one's fellowmen. It is difficult to attain an uncritical attitude, but understanding must take the place of criticism. It suppresses the advancement of the soul if you confront your fellowman immediately with your own opinion. We must hear the other out first, and this listening is an extraordinarily effective means for the development of the soul eyes. Anybody who reaches a higher level in this direction owes it to having learned to abstain from criticizing and judging everybody and everything. How can we look understandingly into somebody's being? We should not condemn but understand the criminal's personality, understand the criminal and the saint equally well. Empathy for each and everyone is required and this is what is meant with higher, occult “listening.” Thus, if a person brings himself with strict self-control to the point of not evaluating his fellowman, or the rest of the world for that matter, according to his personal judgment, opinion and prejudice and instead lets both work on him in silence, he has the chance to gain occult powers. Every moment during which a person becomes determined to refrain from thinking an evil thought about his fellowman is a moment gained.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Inner Development of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-12-15","location":null,"word_count":291,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Origin and Goal of the Human Being","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/English/Singles/19041215p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/53/1904-12-15/p027","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Das hat einen großen Einfluß auf das Seelenauge. Wer nicht schnell genug zur Zeitung greifen kann, und auch, wenn er etwas erfahren hat, es einem anderen gleich mitteilen muß, wer nicht hören und sehen und es bei sich behalten kann, wer die Begierde nicht unterdrücken kann, der kann nicht zur Entwickelung seiner Seele kommen. Ferner ist notwendig, daß der Mensch sich aneignet eine ganz bestimmte Art der Beurteilung seiner Mitmenschen. Das ist schwer zu erreichen: Kritiklosigkeit. Verständnis ist nötig statt Kritik. Wenn Sie dem Mitmenschen gleich Ihre eigene Meinung gegenüberstellen, so unterdrückt das die Seelenentwickelung. Wir müssen zuerst den anderen hören, und dieses Zuhören ist ein außerordentlich wirksames Mittel zur Entwickelung der Seelenaugen, und wer eine höhere Stufe auf diesem Pfade erreicht, hat es dem zu verdanken, daß er sich abgewöhnt hat, alles zu kritisieren, alles zu beurteilen. Wie können wir in die Seele hineinsehen? Wir sollen nicht über den Verbrecher den Stab brechen, sondern auch ihn verstehen, verstehen den Verbrecher wie den Heiligen. Verständnis für einen jeden, das ist notwendig. Das ist das höhere, okkulte Zuhören. Wenn der Mensch in dieser Weise durch festen Willen sich dazu bringt, nicht seinen Mitmenschen, auch nicht die übrige Welt nach seinem persönlichen Urteil, nach seiner Meinung und seinem Vorurteil zu bewerten, sondern sie mit Schweigsamkeit auf sich wirken zu lassen, dann hat er die Möglichkeit, okkulte Kräfte zu bekommen. Jeder Augenblick, wo der Mensch sich vorsetzt: Ich werde jetzt einmal etwas, das ich über meinen Mitmenschen Böses habe denken wollen, nicht denken — ein jeder solcher Augenblick ist ein gewonnener.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/53/1904-12-15/p022"}],"english":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":283,"en_words":291,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5781,"original_word_count":5584,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Origin and Goal of the Human Being","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA053/English/Singles/19041215p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 53/1904-12-15/p022"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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