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We realise our need of sleep as a creative element, if what we experience and perceive in the outer world is really to contribute to the ripening of our inner life. By this means we become certain how it is not the ego we observe during the day that works upon us, but that behind this image stands its reality, always at work in us, even when we are asleep, for lack of sleep proves indeed to have a disturbing effect on the soul's progress. Thus, in the enhancement, the ripening, of the life of soul, we recognise the working of the ego. By acknowledging how disorganised we become if we do not sleep at the appointed time, when the ego should be released from its connection with the bodily nature and enabled to work in freedom—by knowing the lack of sleep to be an obstacle to the ripening of life, we come to be aware of the true ego working within us. We do not then perceive it as an image but as an inner force, ceaselessly at work in our life—whether we are awake or asleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Nature of Eternity","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-03-21","location":null,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1912-03-21/p012","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2016","book_title":"Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/English/eLib2016/19120321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Und wer dann das gesamte Leben überblickt, wird sich klar machen, was auch schon in dem Zusammenhange dieser Vorträge erwähnt worden ist, daß er den Schlaf braucht, um wirklich zu dieser Lebenssteigerung, zu dieser inneren Entwickelung zu kommen. Wir wissen ganz genau, wenn wir unser Seelenleben prüfen, wie der Mangel an Schlaf unsere Vorstellungen zerstört, wie er in einer gewissen Weise verwüstend auf unsere Gemütsverfassung wirkt. Wir wissen, daß wir den Schlaf als etwas Schöpferisches brauchen, wenn das, was wir an der Außenwelt erfahren, was wir immer durch die äußere Welt wahrnehmen, wirklich in uns Lebensreife heranzüchten soll. Wir erfahren dadurch, daß gewiß nicht jenes Bild des Ich, welches wir am Tage beobachten, an uns arbeitet, daß aber die hinter diesem Bilde stehende Realität auch während des Schlafes hindurch arbeitet, denn der Mangel an Schlaf erweist sich eben als zerstörend für das Fortschreiten der Seelenentwickelung. So erkennen wir an der Steigerung, an der Reifwerdung des Seelenlebens das arbeitende Ich. Und indem wir erfahren, was uns fehlt, wenn der Schlaf nicht zur rechten Zeit eintritt, und dieses Ich ausgespannt wird aus der Verbindung mit der äußeren Leiblichkeit und — abgesehen von dieser — arbeiten kann, indem wir so erfahren, wie der Mangel an Schlaf die Steigerung unserer Lebensreife hindert, werden wir unser reales, wirkendes Ich gewahr. 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