Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/686/en

The Spiritual Aim of Striving

It lives as a motive — the will to farm biodynamically — more or less clearly, and bound up with destiny, in each individual. How can this individual driving impulse not only become more conscious, but rise beyond that into the striving-goal of the whole community? Neither the individual nor the community may content itself with having once formed that goal. It requires continual cultivation through the study of anthroposophical spiritual science. Its research contents, set in motion through mutual conversation, stimulate thoughts and feelings that light the way ahead on the path to be walked in common. A weekly study circle of this kind — when it truly succeeds — gives wings in a double sense: for one thing, the internal work-flow of the farm coordinates itself, as if of its own accord, in the right place and at the right time; for another, the community moves, in such an hour lifted out of the everyday, thoughts that mirror themselves in the bearer of the motive — in the consciousness, that is, of each individual. Thoughts gained in this way, from shared spiritual-cognitive work, enter into relationship with the observations and will-experiences made daily in the work itself. The two polar ends of the field of tension move toward one another — or, in fortunate moments, partially merge with each other.