Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/660/en

Feeling in Equanimity — the Path toward a Living Sense of Right

In feeling, the human being experiences himself as dreaming, close to the spirit (Figure 10, p. 172). Upward, toward waking conscious thinking, feeling brightens — but loses its closeness to spirit. Downward toward willing it becomes more spirit-filled, yet finally loses itself into unconsciousness. In feeling, the human being lives wholly present-related, in the changing moods of current events and in the relationships of human being to human being. In equal measure one can neither feel the past nor the future. Both must first be brought into the present: the past, by being re-created in thought; the future, by being felt forward. Every farm has its biography, every village community has its own. It lies deposited in the annals, which convey only a shadow-image of the life, suffering, and striving of past generations. This biography has also inscribed itself in the landscape — in the fields, meadows, forests, the livestock, and so forth, in the atmospheric periphery. Upon these markers the farmer must direct his empathetic attention; he must, through thinking, acquire as far-reaching an understanding of history as possible — one that nourishes his feeling. Only through such conscious inner sensing of the past can he learn once more, in reverence, love, and faithfulness, to transform what has become into what is present. It bears upon all that is set before us today as a task demanded by the times: the re-enlivening of the agricultural organism with all the organs that constitute it, together with the conscious implanting of the idea of development through idea-borne work. Thinking spins the red thread of the cultural achievements of the past up into the present, and strengthens the force of feeling for what nature, here and now, questioningly awaits from us.