Sometimes, everyday life is better than secluded meditation to get to the bottom of one’s own soul. When we talk...
If we are all islands, it is the water that connects us. To get to you, I have to move,...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in Agriculture›. Shiva can speak authoritatively about the ‹sacred› in part due to her experience of the ‹profane›. She has seen the ‹Green Revolution› – and the associated use of fertilizers and genetically...
The horizon is an earthly fact. It is the all-embracing perimeter. It always embraces the center, without which it cannot...
Karma is about shifting responsibility from heaven to yourself. In this, you become the very maker of your own destiny....
According to recently deceased Egyptologist Jan Assmann, bringing the image of the eternal into the world of change was the motif of the most powerful building impulse in human history. Out of the original 800 pyramids, 120 are still standing in the Egypt of today—a testimony to the timelessness of...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
There are three ways of approaching the nature of a number: mathematically, a number reveals something of itself when we examine which other numbers it is in conversation with; biologically, a number shows its relationship to life; and finally—and this is its loftiest aspect—a number manifests itself in culture and...
It is in the nature of things that inspiration, the middle of the three stages of knowledge—the transitions between which...
In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable...
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