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But now we have the sentient soul in addition. In the sentient body, the 'I' will be able to be a little stronger than the correct measure would have been without the influence of Lucifer. [The influence of the Luciferic entities asserts itself in the sentient soul; it does not reach the sentient body.] This has an effect in the sentient soul. Then the discord arises. That is egoism. When the I constricts the forces of the sentient soul too strongly, then egoism arises. The sentient body also takes in beautiful impressions, but the sentient soul cannot rejoice in them. The world gives the colors. The sentient soul should pour itself into what the sentient body gives. He who finds the possibility of going out of himself so far as to embrace the world strengthens his ego. This egoism is healthy because it is rich in content. 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What it is without will, be you the willing one – that's it!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":26,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68c/1909-11-28/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Goethe and the Present","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068c/English/SOL2024/19091128p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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When they create harmony between the sentient soul and the sentient body, they also experience that the moment they harden and do not pour themselves out into the world, they wither away. There are people who create harmony between what flows into the soul and what it experiences. They are then harmonious. This must be the aim of education. But people in whom the I is too active in the sentient soul, without balance in the outer life, where the inflow and outflow are not in harmony, these people become desolate. They cannot feel anything, not even in front of a work of art. This is the secret of what happens in egoism. People must find a way to become inflamed by the impressions of nature, [to learn to feel something when confronted with works of art]. The physician should put himself in the place of what the soul experiences; [an inner feeling must penetrate even into external movements, for example, when doing gymnastics]. 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Was sie willenlos ist, sei du es wollend — das ist’s!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":24,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-11-28/p011"},{"locus":"GA 68c/1909-11-28/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Angelus Silesius:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":2,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-11-28/p012"},{"locus":"GA 68c/1909-11-28/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"> Die Ros’ ist ohn’ Warum,  \n> sie blühet, weil sie blühet;  \n> sie acht'’t nicht ihrer selbst,  \n> fragt nicht, ob man sie siehet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":25,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-11-28/p013"},{"locus":"GA 68c/1909-11-28/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Derjenige Mensch wird seinen Mitmenschen am meisten dienen, der so viel als möglich eigene Fähigkeiten entwickelt. Keine Kräfte, die in uns sind, unentwickelt zu lassen führt uns zum Heil. [Nun ist aber bei dem Streben, seine Kräfte so viel als möglich zu entwickeln], die Gefahr, in verderblichen Egoismus zu geraten, aber ohne das könnte der Mensch keine Freiheit entwickeln. [Und so kann der Egoismus den einen zum Heil, den anderen zum Unheil führen.] Bei der Pflanze ist gesorgt, dass sie über das Maß nicht gehen kann. Wenn die Blüte am schönsten ist, bringt sie ihr eigenes Wesen heraus. In dem Moment, wo die Gefahr besteht, ihr Ich herauszustellen, die Selbstheit zu entwickeln, kommt der Blütenstaub, und die Blüte muss zum Keim übergehen, stirbt ab. Dies Gesetz gilt in gewisser Weise auch für den Menschen. Der erlebt auch, wenn er den Einklang schafft zwischen Empfindungsseele und Empfindungsleib, dass er in dem Moment, wo er verhärtet, sich nicht in die Welt ausgießt, dahinwelkt. Es gibt Menschen, die den Einklang schaffen zwischen dem, was in die Seele einströmt, und was sie erlebt. Die sind dann harmonisch. Das muss durch die Erziehung angestrebt werden. [Die Menschen aber, bei denen das Ich zu sehr in der Empfindungsseele wirkt, ohne Ausgleich nach außen, also wo das Ein- und Ausströmen nicht harmonisch ist, diese veröden.] Die können auch vor einem Kunstwerk nichts empfinden. Das ist das Geheimnis des Geschehens im Egoismus. Die Menschen müssen die Möglichkeit finden, zu entflammen an den Eindrücken der Natur, [bei Kunstwerken etwas empfinden lernen]. Der Arzt müsste sich hineinversetzen in das, was die Seele erlebt; [bis in die äußeren Bewegungen hinein, zum Beispiel beim Turnen, muss ein inneres Empfinden dringen]. Er muss sich freuen können an der Umwelt, das ist ein Geistgläubiger.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-11-28/p014"}],"beads":[{"from":[8],"to":[8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}