Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/652/en

Willing in Freedom, the Path toward the Initiative Community

Active thinking that strives toward clarity of thought, and feeling that immerses itself in perceptions, place themselves wholly in the service of willing (Figure 10, p. 172). Thinking kindles willing and points it in a direction; feeling enlivens it and lends it depth and breadth. People come together into a farm community out of individual motives. The moving force is the wish to farm a biodynamic operation together with others. The motives are either still quite indeterminate — a more or less dark impulse, subjective, woven through with destiny — or they are already brighter in thought, directed through conscious engagement with the given reality. When one then ventures the leap into the unknown together, it is and remains, for a time, a thrown-together community of motives. One notices how little the personal motive can sustain, how gladly the collaboration still leans on bonds of friendship. But these, like the motive itself, are determined by the past — and soon enough disappointments, conflicts, and estrangements set in. One can then only be grateful when lean times rule the kitchen, when necessity commands reason and humour prevails. Such times of being pressed back to the essential, to challenges never before suspected, brighten the willing that presses darkly in the motive. Shared insight begins to take up the reins where until now necessity has been doing the pushing. But it is precisely this cultivation of insight that matters. It unfolds both individually and in community, on different levels: Individually, insight widens through the schooling of thinking and feeling in the shared living-through of the rhythmic alternation of natural phenomena — in the mirror of the shifting relationship between earth, sun, moon, and stars across the course of the year; further, in the intuitive beholding of the resting world of rock in the forms of the landscape, and in the changing life processes of soils, plants, and animals — and, taken together, as members of a higher whole. Interest awakens, as if newborn; what one believes one knows becomes question once again; out of the dullness of the motive a spirit of inquiry awakens; to the beholding eye, relational contexts open themselves up in a new way — a personally knowing