{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-02-18/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now let us consider the other side of the coin. Today there are sensible doctors who say that one must turn to the soul of the human being if one wants to know how a person becomes unsuitable in a certain respect. These doctors know that joy and pleasure are remedies, that they have a healing effect, that they soften what has become rigid and ossified, bringing it back under our control. But that is not enough, just as it is not enough for someone to say that the hidden secret must be detached from the human soul. They do not know that everything that is an inner experience has its great significance, even if it appears distorted. Should we abolish everything mysterious in human nature because it has a distorted effect on some people? Should we, as is demanded here and there, turn doctors into confessors? It can also be infinitely healing for the soul when it is able to draw the veil of mystery over certain things. A Persian proverb says: The time spent in silent reflection before saying something saves you the time of regretting what you have said thoughtlessly! It was not for nothing that Goethe spoke of the “revealed mystery.” In everything sensory that surrounds us, we can see something mysterious, something that lies so deep within things that it cannot be expressed, but which also flows from soul to soul. And health spreads when people can feel the mystery of life in this way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Invisible Elements of Human Nature and Practical Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-18","location":null,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090218p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015","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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Es gibt heute vernünftige Mediziner, die sich sagen, man müsse sich an die Seele des Menschen wenden, wenn man wissen wolle, wie der Mensch in gewisser Beziehung untauglich wird. Diese Mediziner wissen, daß Freude und Lust Heilmittel sind, daß sie gesundend wirken, daß sie das, was verholzt und verknöchert ist, wieder aufweichen, wieder in unsere Gewalt bringen. Aber das ist nicht genug, gerade so wenig, wie es genügt, wenn jemand sagt, das verborgene Geheimnis muß losgelöst werden von der Seele des Menschen. Sie wissen nicht, daß alles, was ein Erlebnis des Innern ist, doch seine große Bedeutung hat, wenn es auch verkehrt auftritt. Sollen wir alles Geheimnisvolle in der Menschennatur aufheben, weil es bei manchen Menschen verkehrt wirkt? Sollen wir etwa, wie es da und dort gefordert wird, die Ärzte zu Beichtvätern machen? Es kann auch unendlich gesundend für die Seele sein, wenn sie in der Lage ist, den Schleier des Geheimnisses über manche Dinge zu ziehen. Ein persischer Spruch sagt: Die Zeit, die man zum schweigenden Nachdenken verwendet, bevor man etwas sagt, die erspart man in bezug auf die Zeit der Reue über das, was man unbedacht gesagt hat! Goethe hat nicht umsonst das Wort vom «offenbaren Geheimnis» gesprochen. In allem Sinnlichen, das uns umgibt, können wir etwas sehen an Geheimnisvollem, etwas, das so tief in den Dingen liegt, daß man es nicht aussprechen kann, das aber auch so von Seele zu Seele flutet. Und Gesundheit breitet sich aus, wenn der Mensch so das Geheimnis des Lebens fühlen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-02-18/p015"}],"english":["GA 57/1909-02-18/p015"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":257,"en_words":250,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4098,"original_word_count":3971,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090218p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 57/1909-02-18/p015"],"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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