“Nature, your maternal existence,
I carry it in my will’s being;
and my will’s fire might,
It steels my spirit’s drives,
So that they birth Self-feeling
to carry my Self in me.”
– Calendar of the Soul verse 26 – Rudolf Steiner.
We often refer to the world or nature in the female aspect the universal mother figure that nurtures us and that provides for us the sustenance we need to live life. This verse brings that existence of the creative, the nurturing, the sustaining in association with will. Will is the source of creation within us, the motherly impulse that nurtures and sustains us as we move through life. We can claim that we live because we will to live. And we live life fully when we claim to live life fully.
Everything begins and ends with what we will within ourselves for what we will, will impact on our consciousness and experience of the world. Will is our essential being and reason for existence and it has the potential to become the driving force that directs our lives irrespective of circumstances, challenges and obstacles in our way. Will is a fire that purifies the mind from its gross elements and that brings forward purity of thought, concentrated in a particular pattern. When we begin to get in touch with our own inner will and its creative possibilities we are beginning to feel our true self, our true individualistic nature. A perception of self that is uncontaminated and real. We feel within ourselves the essence of ourselves.
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