You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.