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Rudolf Steiner – Anthroposophy
  • Daily
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    • During the Day
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  • Practice
    • Evening Retrospect
    • Four Breathes
    • Four Thoughts
    • Subsidiary Exercises
    • Remember Small Details
    • Days Of The Week Exercises
    • Twelve Virtues
    • Yearly Retrospect
  • Meditate
    • How to Meditate on a text
    • The Foundation Stone Meditation
    • The Rose Cross Meditation
    • In pure ray of light
    • Light on the Path
    • More Radiant than the Sun
    • Ever-radiant forms of Light
    • O Godly Spirit, abide in me
    • Michael!
    • Inner Quiet
    • Rest
    • Daily Verses
    • The Esoteric Lord’s Prayer
    • The Lord’s Prayer
    • St. Augustine’s Prayer to the Holy Spirit
    • John, Chapter 1, Verse 1 – 5
    • In the Primal Beginning – 5
    • Verses for accompanying the dead
  • Study
    • The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Stebbing)
    • Theosophy (Cotterell translation)
    • Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment
    • Occult Science — an Outline
    • Outline of Esoteric Science Chapter 5
    • The Etherisation of the Blood (with German text)
      • The Etherisation of the Blood
      • Die Ätherisation des Blutes
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      • Two Recent Civilizations
Subsidiary Exercise #3

Overcoming Pleasure and Pain

During the Day

Develop a certain equanimity towards the fluctuations of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain.
`Heights of jubilation’ and `depths of despair’ should quite consciously be replaced by an equable mood.

Take care that,

  • no pleasure shall carry you away
  • no sorrow plunges into the depths
  • no experience leads to immoderate anger or vexation
  • no expectation gives rise to anxiety or fear
  • no situation disconcerts you

and so on.

Once Every Day

There need be no fear that such an exercise will make life arid and unproductive; far rather will it quickly be noticed that the experiences to which this exercise is applied are replaced by purer qualities of soul.
If subtle attentiveness is maintained, an inner tranquility in the body will one day become noticeable;

  • Call this inner tranquility up before the soul
  • Pour this feeling into the body
  • Let it stream from the heart
    • towards the hands
    • towards the feet and, finally
    • towards the head.
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