Verse for America

May our feeling penetrate

into the center of our heart,

and seek, in love, to unite itself

with the human beings seeking the same goal,

with the spirit beings who -- bearing grace,

strengthening us from realms of light

and illuminating our love --

are gazing down upon

our earnest, heartfelt striving.

~ Rudolf Steiner, 1923

 

"We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards us out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensibilities concerning the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to all that may come, and we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world direction full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence; trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world. Truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. Let us discipline our will, and let us seek the awakening from within ourselves. ."

~ Rudolf Steiner