{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-01-15/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we cultivate spiritual science, we behave in relation to our inner being as one behaves who wants to regulate a stream: he does not go directly to the water to direct it somewhere, because he would get little done that way; but he first goes to the earth, seeks to empty it in one place, seeks to make a fissure in the earth through which the stream can then pass. The same applies to our soul. What can bring us certainty of life, harmony of life, what can bring us a calm view of life in happiness and suffering — we cannot approach it as if we were approaching water directly; but just as water flows by itself into the space we have prepared for it in the earth, so spiritual forces flow by themselves into the will and into the mind when we prepare the bed for them. And we prepare the bed for them when we bring out of the depths of our soul what would otherwise prevent the penetration of the divine spiritual world – but which no longer prevents this penetration when we bring it up into our consciousness. That is why we not only recognize and experience something through the study of spiritual science, but we are transformed in the real sense of the word, because that which otherwise cannot enter our soul then flows into it and we feel, so to speak, an inner strengthening, an inner permeation of the soul as the result of our study of spiritual science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Intuitive Insight in the Happy and Serious Hours of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-15","location":null,"word_count":257,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-01-15/p017","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Fateful Time","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA064/English/SOL2024/19150115p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Was uns Lebenssicherheit, Lebensharmonie, was uns eine ruhige Lebensauffassung in Glück und Leid bringen kann — wir können nicht so da herangehen, wie wenn wir an das Wasser direkt herangehen würden; aber wie das Wasser von selbst in den Raum strömt, den wir ihm in der Erde bereitet haben, so strömen die geistigen Kräfte von selbst ein in den Willen und in das Gemüt, wenn wir ihnen das Bett bereiten. Und das Bett bereiten wir ihnen, wenn wir aus den Seelengründen herausholen, was sonst das Eindringen der göttlich-geistigen Welt verhindert — was aber dieses Eindringen nicht mehr verhindert, wenn wir es in das Bewußtsein heraufholen. 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