Susie: Oh, yes. Busy all day, and then tired after bedtime. When do we get our own stuff done, again?

Scott: How wonderful that you shared it! Kids have a way of quite directly showing what you’re doing wrong, eh? Computers are particularly heinous in their eyes.

HMH: Seems like most spiritual paths have things in common, even if you have to dig a bit for them sometimes. Wisdom — it’s everywhere! And certainly both anthroposophy and Wicca (“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” and “An it harm none, do what ye will”) talk about the will forces.

Eve: Steiner spoke and wrote often about the will, which is strengthened through initiative exercise. A fundamental anthroposophical view of human activity is threefold: thinking, feeling, and willing. We are most conscious in our thinking, less so in our feeling, and the least conscious in our willing. Because it takes such active, hard work to advance spiritually (which Steiner described in detail in his books Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path and How to Know Higher Worlds) we can only benefit by improving our ability to enact our will forces through conscious effort.

I’m wondering about initiative, though. What did Steiner say was the benefit of this practice? Interesting.

Lisa Anne: Have you tried switching to mornings? I’ve read many times that evening, because it is a naturally “down” time in our energy levels, isn’t optimal for meditative work.

RunninL8: The page I set up to list all of the posts should be helpful then