{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Because we are accustomed to always thinking in the same sense as the external facts unfold, thinking actually plays a passive role for us in relation to the will that unfolds in it. It becomes actively inwardly active, permeated with inward initiative, when we train it through such exercises as retrospection, where we tear it away from the course of external facts and make it rely on itself. For when we reinforce what we achieve in this way through careful and energetic exercises with truly serious self-observation, observing what we do as a person of will as if we were standing next to us and observing ourselves piece by piece in our development of will; or also when we would go over to action, when we do exercises for the purpose of making a resolution and then executing it with iron energy, so that we live completely in the element of will. I just wanted to mention in principle such exercises that not only tear the will away from external facts, but also from its and its being to the body itself, which make the will independent, spiritualize it - then we actually come to a development of the will in this way, so that we experience ourselves with our soul life, which now develops the will, outside of our body. 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Denn wenn wir solches, was wir auf diese Weise in sorgfältigen und energischen Übungen erreichen, verstärken durch eine wirklich ernste Selbstbeobachtung, indem wir dasjenige, was wir als Willensmensch tun, so beobachten, wie wenn wir neben uns stehen würden und uns Stück für Stück in unserer Willensentfaltung beobachten würden; oder auch, wenn wir zur Aktivität übergehen würden, wenn wir Übungen geradezu zu dem Zwecke machten, uns etwas vorzunehmen und es dann mit einer eisernen Energie exakt auszuführen, sodass wir ganz im Willenselement leben — ich wollte nur prinzipiell solche Übungen angeben, die den Willen losreißen nicht nur von den äußeren Tatsachen, sondern von seinem Gebundensein an den Leib selber, die den Willen selbstständig machen, vergeistigen —, dann kommen wir auf diese Art tatsächlich zu einer Willensentfaltung, sodass wir uns mit unserem Seelenleben, das nun den Willen entfaltet, außer unserem Leibe erleben. 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