{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1922-05-11/p062","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But if we take this transformation into our own hands, if we bring ourselves to radically change what is habitual in us, for example, in a certain relationship - where a change seems possible - if we behave inwardly towards ourselves in such a way that we make ourselves into a different person in a certain direction through our own will, then we have to actively intensify our inner experience over years, often decades, because such exercises of will take time. You make up your mind: you will develop a certain quality or the form of a quality in yourself. After months you notice how little you succeed in doing this, in this way, what otherwise the body makes out of you. But if you make more and more effort, then you not only see your inner, supersensible human being, but you also manage to make this inner human being, so to speak, completely transparent. A sense organ such as our eye would not be able to serve us as a visual organ if it did not selflessly - if I may use the term - withdraw its own substantiality. As a result, it is transparent, physically transparent. Thus, through exercises of will, we become, so to speak, inwardly transparent to the soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Man nimmt sich vor: Du bildest eine gewisse Eigenschaft oder die Form einer Eigenschaft in dir aus. - Nach Monaten merkt man, wie wenig es einem gelingt, in dieser Weise das, was sonst der Leib aus einem macht, aus sich selbst zu machen. Aber wenn man sich immer mehr und mehr anstrengt, dann schaut man nicht nur seinen inneren, übersinnlichen Menschen an, sondern dann gelangt man dazu, diesen inneren Menschen gewissermaßen ganz durchsichtig zu machen. Ein Sinnesorgan wie unser Auge würde uns nicht als Sehorgan dienen können, wenn es nicht selbstlos - wenn ich mich des Ausdrucks bedienen darf - seine eigene Substantialität zurücknähme. Dadurch ist es durchsichtig, physisch durchsichtig. 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