Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/663/en

The modern self-understanding of the human being presses toward the question of how feeling is deepened beyond personal concerns, how it — supported by reality-related thinking and purified willing — can become a sense organ for the working of the soul-spiritual in nature and in human beings. With regard to nature, this can come about, for example, by lingering outside in a winter's night on the open field — above one the radiant luminous splendour of the star-strewn sky, around one the motionless crystalline chill of the airy periphery, below one, resting in itself, the crystalline depths. In quiet thought one feels the infinite sublimity of the far-spanning polarity; one feels the heights and depths gathered together in the heart as if drawn to a single point, warming what cannot be grasped. If one undertakes the same in a midsummer night, the heart feels itself widened into the periphery. One feels oneself of the air and warmth