Second Lecture

GA 78/1921-08-30/p016 ·1921-08-30 · 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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In thinking, we live in such a way that we are completely devoted to an inner activity. In real thinking, everything is activity within us. No thought can take hold in our consciousness without us participating with our very own activity in the emergence and further development of this thought. For when a dream or a memory image appears in our imagination, that is not thinking; we feel that we have not progressed beyond the dream and memory image or other contents of consciousness to what is real thinking. Real thinking is only there when we are completely engaged in this thinking with our activity. We can develop thinking in its purest, clearest form when we completely disregard the outside world and surrender ourselves to the thought process as it unfolds. Then we perceive how thoughts can develop from thoughts, and we also perceive how this peculiar emergence of thought from thought is an inner spiritual experience.

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