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You virtually place your thinking in a certain stationary state, you remain in a certain thought, you concentrate your entire soul life on this thought. In doing so, it is not important to place yourself in the soul life of some ideas that mean this or that in the external world, but it is best to use ideas that you get from the advice of spiritual science, that you can see clearly can; because if you use ideas that you otherwise take from life, then you cannot know - because you were connected with them - whether or not remnants of feelings and all kinds of volitional impulses are attached to these ideas and you bring them up. One is, so to speak, not in a position to grasp ideas that one absorbs in this way completely in their purity, so that one knows: nothing is attached from the depths of one's soul life that can deceive one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. The Eternal Forces of the Human Soul in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-11-29","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-29/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19151129p01.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. 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Man versetzt gewisse Vorstellungen immer wieder und wiederum in die denkerische Tätigkeit hinein, aber verrichtet das jetzt so, dass es einem nicht darauf ankommt, irgendeinen besonderen Inhalt über das oder jenes zu bekommen, sondern sieht darauf, dass das Denken gleichsam in sich selber stehen bleibt, in der Betätigung, die darin liegt, gewisse, willkürlich in das Denken versetzte Vorstellungen festzuhalten. Man versetzt das Denken geradezu in einen gewissen stationären Zustand, man verharrt in einem gewissen Gedanken, konzentriert das ganze Seelenleben auf diesen Gedanken zusammen. 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