We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve let emotion guide us—we come impulsive and throw our ability to think out the window. In art—this is great haha but in living, surviving and thriving…in being a free person in this world and not a slave to emotion and impulse, this ability requires awareness, education and practice. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all teach us this: how to think so that we can be free and not slaves to our unquestioned thoughts and most base operating systems.
I understand the importance of mildness—these things: kindness, manners, respect, humility, restraint…these things have saved us from more evils than we can know.
Listening again! What your thoughts on sacred rage? Is this a thing that Steiner talks about? I’m trying to follow this up with ideas but can’t explain it and keep deleting my thoughts because I can’t articulate it well😅 I’ll just say, I think history is filled with examples of this energy kicking in at the last moment in order to overcome immense darkness. It’s like a raging fire of God’s LOVE, TRUTH and JUSTICE burning up all this is unlike the light of God.
Hello Amber - thanks for all your earnest listenings! I will do some research on “sacred rage”, ask around, see if this may be a topic for a future PS episode as I appreciate your grappling thoughts and find the topic interesting.
What a lovely conversation 🙏♥️
We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve let emotion guide us—we come impulsive and throw our ability to think out the window. In art—this is great haha but in living, surviving and thriving…in being a free person in this world and not a slave to emotion and impulse, this ability requires awareness, education and practice. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all teach us this: how to think so that we can be free and not slaves to our unquestioned thoughts and most base operating systems.
So well said!!!
I understand the importance of mildness—these things: kindness, manners, respect, humility, restraint…these things have saved us from more evils than we can know.
Listening again! What your thoughts on sacred rage? Is this a thing that Steiner talks about? I’m trying to follow this up with ideas but can’t explain it and keep deleting my thoughts because I can’t articulate it well😅 I’ll just say, I think history is filled with examples of this energy kicking in at the last moment in order to overcome immense darkness. It’s like a raging fire of God’s LOVE, TRUTH and JUSTICE burning up all this is unlike the light of God.
Hello Amber - thanks for all your earnest listenings! I will do some research on “sacred rage”, ask around, see if this may be a topic for a future PS episode as I appreciate your grappling thoughts and find the topic interesting.
from GA 58, Metamorphoses of the Soul I, The Mission of Anger
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA058/English/RSP1983/19091205p01.html
This was so fun! Thank you Ronda.