Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/716/en

What working in enlivened and ensouled nature means must be rediscovered. For this, intuitive beholding and thinking must turn toward its distinctive character — toward what grows living into outward form, and toward what closes itself soul-wise into a bodily form. What has been formed is graspable in ideas; the formative agency is illuminated by anthroposophical spiritual research, which unlocks the world of beings in idea-form, making it thereby accessible to thinking. Knowledge of the essential being is what first lends to the ideas formed through sense-perception — which are themselves rooted in the world of beings — moral force. When they take hold of the will, they become one's own in being. With these ideas, absorbed into one's own I-being, one finds a new, a free relationship to work. One learns to work out of one's own ground of being, and finds in it direction and aim. The moral source is oneself, and one determines oneself in freedom from it. From this primal ground of the I alone flows the true enthusiasm. It springs from the idea that has become spirit-real. It is this that runs ahead of the work, warms it, and fills it with soul-joy. The work — however hard it may be, however apparently lowly and inconsequential — ennobles itself through the spirit that permeates it. It is spirit-filled from beginning to end, and adds something to the farm organism that lifts it out of its mere naturalness.