Rudolf Steiner Quotes

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he is speaking. The whole process must be generated over again as a fresh, original experience.

In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.

Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.