Heart Thinking | Free Book
Inspired Knowledge
The concepts of 'thinking with the heart' or 'emotional intelligence'
are often used today, usually in contrast to intellectual thought.
When Rudolf Steiner used the phrase 'heart thinking', however, he
meant it in a very specific sense. Drawn primarily from his lectures,
the compiled texts in this anthology illuminate his perspective – that
heart thinking is intimately related to the spiritual faculty of
Inspiration. The heart, he says, can become a new organ of thinking
through the practice of exercises that work towards the transformation
of feeling, shedding its personal and subjective character.The
exercise sequences presented here call for two fundamental gestures.
Firstly, renunciation, which extends from an extinguishing of images
engendered in meditation, through inner silence, to a conscious
suppression of sense perception. The second gesture involves the
development of new feelings towards natural phenomena as well as to
the reports of spiritual-scientific research. By practising these
methods, we can attain a kind of thinking that is in harmony with the
true nature and reality of what we seek to know.Rudolf Steiner's texts
are collected together by Martina Maria Sam, who contributes a lucid
introduction and notes.
- Title: Heart Thinking | Free Book
- Author: Steven
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