{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 88/1903-06-28/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is always difficult for us to find our own dharma, the law of our personal existence, to fulfill the commandment “know thyself”. It takes a long time to become accustomed to being able to immerse ourselves in ourselves, uninfluenced by the things of the sensual world, by our own desires and admired role models, and to listen to the inner voice that shows us the path of our duty, which our position, our relationships, the circle into which we were born impose on us. When we correctly recognize the level of our being, our degree of imperfection, when we become quite clear about what the truth and duty is at our level of development, then self-knowledge does not serve selfishness, but that is Dharma, because Dharma is the observance of the law in the sense of true self-knowledge. We then find our personal note and can make it resound powerfully in the eternal harmony of the world. We must learn to understand our intimate connection with the cosmos, as a part of it; our vibrations must harmonize with the rhythmic movement of the cosmos. Injustice and sin are nothing more than disharmony, when our irregular vibrations cause disruptions and disturbances in the lawful course of cosmic events. The more we feel at one with the cosmos, the more it will reveal to us. Only the spirit speaks to us, which we have learned to understand. According to the extent of our knowledge, divine inspiration is bestowed upon us, the higher self, which is of divine nature, reveals itself to us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Man muß sich lange gewöhnen, um unbeeinflußt von den Dingen der Sinnenwelt, von unseren eigenen Wünschen und bewunderten Vorbildern, sich still in sich selbst versenken zu können und auf die innere Stimme zu horchen, die uns den Weg unserer Pflicht weist, die unsere Stellung, unsere Beziehungen, der Kreis, in den wir hineingeboren sind, uns auferlegen. Wenn wir die Stufe unseres Seins, unseren Unvollkommenheitsgrad richtig erkennen, wenn wir uns über das, was Wahrheit und Pflicht auf unserer Entwicklungstufe ist, recht klarwerden, dann dient Selbsterkenntnis nicht dem Egoismus, sondern das ist Dharma, denn Dharma ist die Befolgung des Gesetzes im Sinne wahrer Selbsterkenntnis. Wir finden dann unsere persönliche Note und können sie in der ewigen Weltharmonie zum kräftigen Mittönen bringen. Wir müssen unseren innigen Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos, als einen Teil desselben, begreifen lernen; unsere Schwingungen müssen harmonisch zu der rhythmischen Bewegung des Kosmos stimmen. Unrecht und Sünde ist ja nichts anderes als Disharmonie, wenn unsere unregelmäßigen Schwingungen Stockungen und Störungen in dem gesetzmäßigen Gang des kosmischen Geschehens verursachen. Je mehr wir uns eins mit dem Kosmos fühlen, je mehr wird er uns offenbaren. Nur der Geist spricht zu uns, den zu verstehen wir gelernt haben. 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