Categorie archieven: spirituality

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)

First voice `But why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?’ Second voice `The air is cut away before, And closes from behind. Argument How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course […]

Without spiritual impulses everything will lead to decadence, to barbarism, to the fall of civilisation

  What must be emphasised over and over again is the need there is today for things to be taken with deep seriousness. This goes against the grain. People choose to believe that things will continue in the same way. No, they will not. If life continues without the stimuli that come from the spiritual […]

Are we powerless in front of terrorist’s attacks?

Are we powerless in front of terrorist’s attacks? Me, in my little life, is there anything I can do? Of course it is bringing feelings of fear, insecurity and angriness. When I’m taken by those feelings I actually react as the terrorists want me to react. If I go into war I also play their […]

Nothing is so disturbing, nothing can be so bitter and disheartening as to experience the result of our failure to develop love and compassion

The egoism we develop in the physical world, without being willing to acquire self-knowledge, shows up when it is carried into spiritual worlds. Nothing is so disturbing, nothing can be so bitter and disheartening as to experience the result of our failure to develop love and compassion in the physical world. Ascending into the spiritual […]

Find the inner Healer

Healing is not a matter of will but of recognition of the deep inability to solve whatever there is to solve. Reaching that point means the end of trying to solve things. The flame in the heart can then quietly arise. It becomes then possible to reconnect to the immortal flame of the heart and […]

Interest and understanding instead of criticism

  Only a genuine concern of each man for his neighbour can bring salvation to mankind in the future — I mean to his community life. The characteristic feature of the epoch of the Consciousness Soul is man’s isolation. That he is inwardly isolated from his neighbour is the consequence of individuality, of the development […]