Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

One does not become a guru by accident.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.

If your idea of a guru is from a calendar, who has candy-floss beard and a constipated look on the face, then definitely I am not that.

I dream like a shaman.

I have a very powerful belief structure. I'm very spiritual. I'm not religious but I am spiritual.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.