Rudolf Steiner Quotes

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.

He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.