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He once put this to Goethe in the following words: If at an advanced age one looks back on the course of one's steps in life, one finds that these steps seem to reveal a systematic arrangement, so that everything appears to have been present in embryo and to have developed in such a way that one was led by a kind of inner necessity to what we now see to have been a fateful event. Human existence as seen with the “mind's eye” unveiled is as different from the life observed by the unopened eyes as the world of colour is from the merely tactile one of the blind man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":235,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Wir sind angewiesen im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein, das, was eintritt im Leben, wie eine Summe von Zufälligkeiten anzusehen und mehr oder weniger auch als einen Zufall, daß wir zuletzt zu diesem Schicksalsereignis, zu dem Treffen mit dem andern Menschen geführt worden sind. Nur einzelne Menschen, wie Goethes Freund Krebel, erwerben sich, gewissermaßen rein durch ihr Alter, eine innere Lebensweisheit. Er sprach es einmal aus seinem Freund Goethe gegenüber: Wenn man zurückschaut in vorgerückterem Alter auf seine Lebensschritte, da findet man etwas in ihnen, was wie planvoll geordnet erscheint, so daß von vornherein alles so keimhaft veranlagt erscheint und sich das Weitere so entwickelt, daß man wie durch innere Notwendigkeit hingeführt wird zu dem, was dann als Schicksalsereignis erscheint. 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