The calendar of the soul.
The course of the year has its own life which the human soul can accompany and take part in.It may rightly find itself when such a sharing is sensitive to that which changes from week to week and may feel how it gains strengthening forces from within.One will realize that such souls forces are waiting to be roused by participating in the meaning of the world's journeying and how it unfolds in the course of time. Thus one becomes aware of the delicate but vital threads that unite the soul with the world into which it is born.
In this Calendar there is a verse for each week composed so that the soul can experience the appropriate part of the year's journey, and something of the life that can thrive in the soul when it is thus united. Then a healthy feeling of at-one-ness with the course of nature and a strong sense of self can develop, for undoubtedly, the soul bears a yearning to participate in the world's journeying by means of what these verses offer.
Rudolf Steiner
16-22 June
In this Sun-hour it rests with you,
To comprehend wise tiding's call:-
While to World-beauty wholly given
And feeling Self within-experience
'The I of man can lose itself
And in the I of worlds can find itself.'
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