Rudolf Steiner Quotes

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.