Rudolf Steiner Quotes

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

Death does not exist.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

I look through the grave into heaven.