{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 61/1912-03-21/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When the whole course of life is observed impartially, however, this relationship between feeling and will on the one hand, and thought on the other, can be seen to change. Thus at a certain time of life a man will repress the feelings and impulses connected with his thoughts, whereas at another time he will keep them more together. Youth is the period when we are most apt to yield over our joys, sorrows and impulses of will to our subconscious. It is then that we are most easily inclined to send down to the subconscious the experiences of heart and soul that will eventually work into our whole disposition—even into our bodily condition. But as the body becomes more firmly knit, the elements of our consciousness come to be less and less like what they were, with the result that we are less and less able to work on the subconscious, and our feelings and will impulses come by degrees to remain bound up with our thoughts. When with genuine self-knowledge a man observes life, he feels, as he grows older, how in youth a person sends down most of his moods of feeling, so that they live on in the make-up of his body. But the more rigid and dried-up a man becomes later on, the more do these experiences and the impulses of will not exhausted in action, remain united with his thoughts. Thus we see how, in this respect, the inner life is enriched as we approach death. We see how the bodily organism gradually dries up and becomes less capable of absorbing the soul's experiences, whereas, if we continue to learn from life as though from a school, the soul will become more alive, more mature. For this reason all that in youth is connected with ideals, ideas, even with mere concepts, flashes through our unconscious being, lays hold of our blood, our nervous system, and settles there, in order later to emerge as our capability for living—or the reverse. Later on we feel that our blood will no longer be, is no longer in harmony with our enthusiasm for ideals. Because of our wrong methods of education this feeling is now to some extent repressed, but in future it will belong increasingly to the best things and blessings of life. For when we are approaching the winter of life, the feelings and impulses that in earlier years we gave over to our bodily organism will add to our strength of soul, no longer being able to pass down into the body on account of the resistance they meet with there.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Nature of Eternity","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-03-21","location":null,"word_count":436,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1912-03-21/p022","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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Immer mehr aber verfestigt sich unser Leib, und immer weniger und weniger sind die in unserem Bewußtsein liegenden Partien noch dieselben. Die Folge ist, daß wir nicht mehr so wie früher in das Unterbewußte hineinarbeiten können. Daher kommt es, daß das, was mit den Gefühlen und Willensimpulsen verbunden ist, auch mit den Gedanken später verbunden ist. Man fühlt, je älter man wird, wenn man das Leben nur in treuer Selbsterkenntnis beobachtet, daß man in der Jugendzeit den weitaus größten Teil dessen, was mit Gemütsstimmungen und so weiter verknüpft ist, hinuntersendet, damit es in der Leibesverfassung fortlebt. Je mehr man aber später fest und trocken geworden ist, desto mehr bleibt das, was im späteren Leben das Gemüt erlebt als Gemütsstimmungen, und bleiben die Willensimpulse, die sich nicht in Handlungen ausleben, mit den Gedanken verbunden. So sehen wir, daß das Innenleben in dieser Beziehung reicher wird, indem wir dem Tode zuschreiten. Wir sehen unsere Leiblichkeit nach und nach vertrocknen, nach und nach weniger fähig werden, um das in sich aufzusaugen, was wir in der Seele erleben. Dagegen aber wird die Seele frischer und reifer, wenn wir fortwährend an dem Leben als an einer Schule lernen können. Deshalb ist es, daß in der Jugend dasjenige, was mit Idealen, mit Ideen, ja mit bloßen Vorstellungen verbunden ist, unsere unbewußte Wesenheit durchzuckt, unser Blut, unser Nervensystem ergreift, sich darin einlebt, um dann im späteren Leben als unsere Lebenstüchtigkeit oder Lebensuntüchtigkeit herauszukommen. Im späteren Leben fühlen wir, daß unser Blut mit dem nicht mehr mit will, was wir an Enthusiasmus an unseren Idealen erleben. Das ist etwas, was durch die heutige verkehrte Erziehung gewissermaßen zurückgehalten wird, was aber immer mehr und mehr zu den besten Gütern und zur Seligkeit des Lebens gehören wird, indem nämlich dasjenige, was wir sonst an die Leiblichkeit abgeben und was sich mit ihr vereinigt, nun, während wir dem Lebenswinter zueilen, unsere Seelenverfassung stärker machen wird, aber nicht herein kann in das äußereLeibliche, weil ihm dieses äußere Leibliche Widerstände darbietet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":434,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/61/1912-03-21/p020"}],"english":["GA 61/1912-03-21/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":434,"en_words":436,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 61/1912-03-21/p020"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8000,"original_word_count":8902,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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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