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This preparation consists of the fact that you strengthen your courage. You must experience this moment fearlessly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Questions of Life and the Riddle of Death I","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-02-16","location":null,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69a/1913-02-16/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2017","book_title":"Truths and Errors in Spiritual Research","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069a/English/eLib2017/19130216v01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Man hat das Gefühl, wie wenn einem die Hände angeschmiedet wären und das Gehirn etwas ist, über das man keine Gewalt hat, das seelisch wirkt wie ein Hindernis. Um diesen Moment zu ertragen, muß man sich vorbereiten. Diese Vorbereitung besteht darin, daß man seinen Mut stählt. Man muß diesen Moment erleben in Furchtlosigkeit. Daran schließen sich mancherlei andere Erlebnisse an, die alle dahin führen zu wissen, was es heißt, dem, was man immer sein eigen genannt hat, seinem Leibe, seinen gewöhnlichen Seelenkräften, gegenüberzustehen wie einer Sache. 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