Rudolf Steiner Quotes

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.