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Life has done that. But if you take your self-development into your own hands, you set yourself the goal: you should incorporate this or that quality; if you work towards incorporating such qualities, you work particularly energetically towards getting rid of certain habits, then you develop that which tears the will away from physical corporeality. And now one arrives at having the will living in the soul, so to speak, only to the extent that it is completely permeated by thoughts everywhere; it is torn away from the body, it has become transparent. Consider how little transparent the will is when we form the thought, let us say, to raise our arm, to raise our hand. The thought, the intention, is clear, and afterwards, when the hand is raised, we see from the sense impression what has happened. The unfolding of the will that lies in between is as hidden from human consciousness as the processes of falling asleep themselves. But now we experience a will in which we are completely immersed, as we are otherwise only in thoughts, a will free of the body, which submits to the imaginative and inspired ideas, free of the body, that we have received before.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":344,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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Bedenken Sie nur, wie der Mensch im gewöhnlichen Leben weitergebracht wird durch dasjenige, was das Leben selber gibt. Gewiss, jeder ist doch anders heute, als er vor zehn, zwanzig Jahren war in Bezug auf gewisse feinere Nuancen des Seelenlebens. Das hat das Leben getan. Nimmt man aber diese seine Selbstentwicklung selber in die Hand, nimmt man sich vor: Du sollst dir diese oder jene Eigenschaft einverleiben; arbeitet man darauf hin, sich solche Eigenschaften einzuverleiben, arbeitet man besonders energisch darauf hin, gewisse Gewohnheiten von sich loszubekommen, dann bildet man dasjenige aus, was den Willen losreißt von der physischen Leiblichkeit. Und man gelangt jetzt dazu, den Willen sozusagen nur insoweit in der Seele leben zu haben, als er ganz von Gedanken überall durchzogen ist; er ist losgerissen von der Leiblichkeit, er ist durchsichtig geworden. Bedenken Sie, wie wenig durchsichtig das Wollen ist, wenn wir den Gedanken fassen, sagen wir, den Arm zu heben, die Hand zu heben. Der Gedanke, die Absicht ist klar, und nachher, wenn die Hand gehoben ist, sehen wir an dem Sinneseindruck, was geschehen ist. Was dazwischen liegt an Willensentfaltung, das ist für das menschliche Bewusstsein so verborgen, wie die Vorgänge des Schlafens selber. Jetzt aber erleben wir einen Willen, in dem wir ganz drinnen sind, wie wir sonst nur in den Gedanken sind, einen leibfreien Willen, der sich fügt zu den leibfreien imaginativen und inspirierten Vorstellungen, die wir vorher bekommen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":346,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p027"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-23/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":346,"en_words":344,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10817,"original_word_count":10371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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