Balance. It is a big word these days. Finding balance in life. Making sure no one part takes control and we lose sight of all the other facets of our lives. But is balance what we should be striving for? These thoughts were spurred by a post on Instagram by Waldorf Handwork Educators, where it … Continue reading Reconsidering Balance
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 51 I may now to myself belong,And radiantly spread inward lightInto the darkness of all space and time. All natural Being presses towards sleep,The depths of soul shall waken,And waking carry gleams of SunInto cold floods of Winter" Calendar of the Soul, Week 25Translator: Ernst Lehrs (note: some calendars are … Continue reading I May Now to Myself Belong
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 48 The point is, everything teachers do in front of children at this stage of life constitutes meaningful language for them. The actual words that teachers speak are merely part of this language. There are many other unconscious factors lying in the depths of the feeling life that also play … Continue reading More Than Words
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 43 He who consciously turns his mind, for one month, to the positive aspect of all his experiences will gradually notice a feeling creeping into him as if his skin were becoming porous on all sides, and as if his soul were opening wide to all kinds of secret … Continue reading Opening to the World
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 42 I feel, as if enchantedIn glory of the world, the spirit's weaving;It has my selfhood's beingIn senses' dullness shrouded,To bestow on me the strengthWhich my own I within its boundsIs powerless itself to give.—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann~I feel enchanted weavingOf spirit within outer glory.In dullness of the … Continue reading Same Verse, Different Voice
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 37 To practice these principles is the important point. Time must be taken to observe things as though we were inside the things themselves with our thinking. We should submerge ourselves in the things and enter into their inner thought activity. If this is done, we gradually become … Continue reading Harmony
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 36 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) We have to distinguish true thinking from the so-called practical thinking, which merely consists in opinions based on the … Continue reading Open-mindedness
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 35 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) When I forget the narrow will of Self,The cosmic warmth that heralds summer's gloryFills all my soul and spirit,To … Continue reading Lose Yourself to Find Yourself
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 34 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) Positivity has had some bad publicity recently. The phrase "toxic positivity" has had a lot of play time in … Continue reading Positivity
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 33 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) Isn't that a great word? Imperturbability. It is a word to describe Steiner's third exercise, equanimity, sometimes referred to … Continue reading Imperturbability
