{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1909-02-13/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The third thing is the inner satisfaction of the thought process. Everyone should have this, regardless of their station in life. Even if you devote only a little time to it, it will come back to you in abundance, even in material terms. No matter what area of life you are in, you should be able to reflect not only on the things you are involved with, but also on other areas. You should have moments of reflection on this or that question. Such minutes of reflection, in which you think in such a way that you do not desire that your thoughts flow into the outside world, should fill you with inner satisfaction. As a human being, you will get nowhere by solving problems that are actually far removed from what you are thinking in relation to the immediate practicalities of life. If you initially only have inner satisfaction from what you are doing with your thoughts, you will get ahead as a human being. If the carpenter only thinks about making tables and chairs, he will get nowhere as a human being. As a human being, you get ahead when you think about what gives you inner satisfaction. This trains the thinking organs. As a human being, and indirectly as a practitioner, you get ahead. No one will deny that you face life differently if you are this or that being. There is a big difference between a dog and a human standing before the Sistine Madonna. Man has a completely different relationship to it. Because man always remains in a certain area, he does not go beyond himself. Because he engages in thought and finds satisfaction in it, he advances. Through the process of reflection, in which he finds satisfaction, he affects practice differently than without it, and it is precisely through this that he will transcend a narrow field. He will rise above the standpoint of the inner coachman with an inwardly satisfying thinking, which is nothing more than what grants and seeks inner satisfaction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. 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Wenn er auch ein Geringes an Zeit darauf verwendet, es kommt ihm reichlich wieder herein, selbst in materieller Beziehung. Auf welchem Gebiete des Lebens man auch steht, man soll in die Lage kommen, nachzudenken nicht gerade über das, womit man sich betätigt, sondern über fremde Gebiete soll man Augenblicke des Nachdenkens über diese oder jene Frage haben. Solche Minuten des Nachdenkens, in denen man denkt in der Art, dass man nicht verlangt, dass das Denken einfließt in die Außenwelt, das soll mit innerer Befriedigung erfüllen. Mit dem Auflösen von Fragen, die eigentlich dem ferne stehen, was man denkt in Bezug auf das unmittelbar Praktische im Leben, kommt man als Mensch nicht weiter. Worin man zunächst nur innere Befriedigung hat, was man da mit seinen Gedanken ausführt, mit dem kommt man als Mensch weiter. Wenn der Tischler nur nachdenkt über die Herstellung von Tischen und Stühlen, so kommt er als Mensch nicht weiter. 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