Snippet Studies
Volume III

1. Crisis reveals character.

2. There is as much karma for not telling the truth as there is for lying itself
S.

3. .... we know ourselves as separate only insofar as we live in connection with others; and that we experience relationship only insofar as we differentiate other from self.
Carol Gilligan

4. Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness. The tradition is a fence around the law. Tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence. A fence around wisdom is silence.
Rabbi Akiba

5. Defeat means lack of being. Our whole life ought to be Being. So far as our life is being, so far it is in God.
Echart

6. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Gita

7. Man becomes the living testimony of what he discovers.
F. Earnst III

8. Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments Love is not love which which altes when its alternation finds, or Bends with the remover to remove. Oh no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks tempest and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark whose worth unknown although its height be taken.
Shakespeare Sonnet 116

9. When being is estimated as a value, then it is already reduced to a condition set by the will to power ... When the being of what is is stamped as a value and thereby has its essence sealed, then is within this metaphysics any road to the experience of Being wiped out.
Heidegger, Being and Time

l~. The sick are ourselves, writ out in larger letters.
Plato

11. The eternal kingdom is the reward of a spirit who has developed in such a way that such a kingdom can look like a reward to it.
Robert Roberts

12. Dread is an invitation.
S.

13. Silence is seductive.
S.

14. Vanity is frequently very talkative, whereas pride is silent.

15. A crisis can be defined as the shock between mi/fa.

16. When compassion becomes more than an emotion, it results in an action.
S.

17. And because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts crying ABBA! Father. So through God you are no longer a slave but a son and if a son, then an heir.
Galatians 4:6—7

18. False Gods always fail and fall.
William Muehl

19. Death is another form of life. Death is alive.
S.

2~. In bridge a two of trump can beat any ace in any other suit.
S.

21. Authority equals patent immediacy.

22. The more deeply a person develops, the less important does the concept of duty become. We have duties only because we are not yet completely moral.
Robert Roberts

23. Halfway measures availeth nothing.

24. Sin is persisting in doing something that should be left behind.
DaSilva

25. Why struggle towards future? Relax; future going to happen anyway.
G.

26. Man's fate is his character.
Balzac

27. Superstition is equal to cowardice in relationship to the divine.
Aristotle

28. All centers think. You must learn to stop them all.
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29. There are things that can be understood only with a positive attitude and there are things that can only be understood with a negative attitude.
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3~. No man who is fully and rightly expressing himself is ever neurotic.
Nicoll, Dream Psychology

31. One must study and understand the right order of possibility.
0.

32. In the Work you always have to do more than you can. Only then can you change .... This is different from life — in life you only do what is possible.
0.

33. Being is power — power to do. And power to do is power to be different.
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34. Time is counted against you. Time tests.

35. Evolution springs from imbalance.
Cohn Wilson

36. Hasnamus
1. Every kind of depravity conscious as well as unconscious.
2. Feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray.
3. The irresistible inclination to destroy the existence of other breathing creatures.
4. The urge to become free from the necessity of actualizing the being—efforts demanded by nature.
5. The attempt by every kind of artificiality to conceal from others what are their own physical defects.
6. The calm self—contentment in the use of what's not personally deserved.
7. The striving to be not what one is.
G.

37. Personality hates essence.
G

38. You can not have results without causes. By your sacrifices you create causes.
0.

39. Man is:
What they eat
What air they breathe
And in what medium they live.

40. All things are true but all things are not useful.
S.

41. Evolution follows both an ascending and descending line.
Steiner

42. To explain truth is to explain the human ethers body's relation to the cosmos
Beauty — is the etheric and astral bodies that vibrate in unison.
The "good" represents the active forces in the astral body.
Steiner

43. In a Work Group self-will is useless and reason imperative.
S.