20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

GA 69d/1914-05-08/p014 ·1914-05-08 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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It would be easy to believe that one must perform very special, miraculous deeds in order to enter the spiritual world. This is not the case. Basically, what the soul needs to enter the spiritual world is present in every human soul life. It takes place between the other experiences of ordinary existence. And what otherwise takes place, if I may use the expression, between the lines of life, must be developed by the spiritual researcher to an unlimited degree. And there is one thing that at first appears to us as something quite inconspicuous in the life of the soul, namely what we call attention in ordinary life.

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