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Reality is something we create, in which we participate as creators; and the mystery of human beings lies in the fact that, when they are born, they are surrounded by a world that is not full reality, and that they are born to add something to what is presented to them in external sensory appearance that arises only within them. Only in this context, in this coexistence of what arises within him and what he perceives externally, does he live himself into reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"Thinking as Creative Participation in Reality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Es stellt sich die Sache so, daß Wirklichkeit erst Seelenerlebnis wird, wenn der Mensch sich mit der Wahrnehmung durch sein Denken, das in seinem Geiste aufgeht, verbindet. Wirklichkeit ist etwas, was durch das Erkennen wird. Wirklichkeit ist nicht etwas, was wir suchen müssen. Wirklichkeit ist etwas, was wir erzeugen, an dem wir erzeugenden Anteil nehmen; und das Geheimnis des Menschen besteht darinnen, daß ihn, indem er geboren wird, eine Welt umgibt, die nicht volle Wirklichkeit ist, und daß er dazu geboren wird, zu dem, was sich ihm da darstellt in der äußeren sinnlichen Erscheinung, etwas hinzuzubringen, das nur in seinem Inneren aufgeht. 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