Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
To be free is to be capable of thinking one’s own thoughts – not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one’s deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one’s individuality.
You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other...
Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child’s experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.
The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.