38. The Ideals of Humanity and the Ideals of the Initiates
GA 68b/1906-01-16/p005
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They say that idealists are unworldly people. But in truth, the future is always unworldly in the present. The idealist is, of course, quite different from the practitioner. The idealist's soul is tuned quite differently. He has quite different experiences of the soul. We have to develop a very specific way of feeling and we cannot do a child a greater service than to develop in him this state of mind, which does not constitute dreamy but practical ideality.
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