Rudolf Steiner Quotes

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.