{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 64/1915-01-15/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But what carries us through the stream of life in our souls? One word indicates it to us, a word that is full of meaning: human destiny. How do we grasp destiny as long as we cling only to the externals of material existence, as long as we only want to combine these externals with the combining mind bound to the brain? How do we grasp destiny? We regard it as something that befalls us, that comes to us; we speak of the “fortuities” of life. In one of the last lectures it was already mentioned here how, without touching on spiritual science, these fortuities of life make a very different impression. If we examine ourselves at any moment in life, what we actually are, what we have become, and then look back in our lives to a certain point in time after our birth, we find that we have become what we are because certain coincidences of fate have befallen our ego. Perhaps we experienced real failures once during our youth: when we had to solve an ordinary school task, we could not solve it, or we solved it wrongly; but because we solved it wrongly, it had this or that consequence for us. But these consequences have become deeply ingrained in our soul; they still sit inside our soul in old age. But the fact that we can make a quick decision in a particular case in life is the consequence of what earlier brought us failure. In this way we have been able to strengthen our powers. What we are now, we owe to what fate has brought us.","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":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/64/1915-01-15/p028","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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Ein Wort deutet es uns an, ein Wort, inhaltsschwer: das menschliche Schicksal. Wie fassen wir, solange wir nur an den Äußerlichkeiten des materiellen Daseins haften, solange wir nur diese Äußerlichkeiten zusammenfassen wollen mit dem kombinierenden, an das Gehirn gebundenen Verstand, wie fassen wir da das Schicksal auf? Wir fassen es auf als etwas, was uns trifft, was an uns herankommt; wir reden von den «Zufälligkeiten» des Lebens. Schon in einem der letzten Vorträge wurde hier erwähnt, wie sich schon, ohne daß man an die Geisteswissenschaft heranstreift, diese Zufälligkeiten des Lebens ausnehmen. Wenn wir uns in irgendeinem Momente des Lebens prüfen, was wir eigentlich sind, was wir geworden sind, und dann in unserm Leben zurückblicken bis zu einem gewissen Zeitpunkt nach unserer Geburt, dann finden wir, daß wir das, was wir sind, dadurch geworden sind, daß gewisse Schicksalszufälle über unser Ich gekommen sind. Da haben wir vielleicht einmal während unserer Jugend rechte Mißerfolge gehabt: Als wir eine gewöhnliche Aufgabe der Schule zu lösen hatten, haben wir sie nicht lösen können, oder wir haben sie falsch gelöst; dadurch aber, daß wir sie falsch gelöst haben, hat dies für uns diese oder jene Folgen gehabt. Diese Folgen haben sich aber tief in unsere Seele eingegraben; sie sitzen jetzt noch, im Alter, in unserer Seele drinnen. Daß wir in einem bestimmten Falle des Lebens einen raschen Entschluß fassen können, das ist aber die Folge dessen, was uns früher Mißerfolg gebracht hat. So haben wir dadurch unsere Kräfte stärken können. Was wir jetzt sind, das verdanken wir dem, was uns schicksalsmäßig zugefallen ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/64/1915-01-15/p028"}],"english":["GA 64/1915-01-15/p028"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":272,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9274,"original_word_count":8779,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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