We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception. . . But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
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.
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.
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter. ] How can I be his age? It's weird.
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly