Ten opzichte van wat we op aarde aan pijn, aan lijden beleven, zien we op het geestelijke plan dat de op het fysieke plan doorstane smarten en gedragen leed verder werken en op het geestelijke plan onze ziel zo doordringen met krachten, dat deze krachten wilskrachten worden. Dat we daardoor in de ziel sterker worden en de mogelijkheid hebben deze sterkte in morele kracht om te zetten, die we dan op het fysieke niveau meebrengen kunnen, om niet alleen bepaalde vaardigheden te hebben, waarmee we iets waardevols creëren kunnen voor de omgeving, maar om ook de morele kracht te hebben om met deze vaardigheden karaktervol te handelen.
Bron: Rudolf Steiner – GA 153 – Inneres Wesen des Menschen und Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt – Wenen, 14 april 1914 (bladzijde 166)
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De grote Rudolf Steiner Citatensite 
Denk dat het helemaal waar is.
Dit wilde ik je toch wel even laten lezen. Liefs, Ad
All beauty is grounded in suffering. Beauty can only be developed from pain. R.S.
datum 20-8-1922
here the full context : But the other aspect is that one cannot reach this Intuitive knowledge, this submerging in outer things, without passing through intense suffering, much more intense than the pain of which I had to speak when I characterized Imaginative knowledge, when I said that through one’s own efforts one must find the way back into one’s sympathies and antipathies — and that inevitably means pain. But now pain becomes a cosmic experiencing of all suffering that rests upon the ground of existence.
One can easily ask why the Gods or God created suffering. Suffering must be there if the world is to arise in its beauty. That we have eyes — I will use popular language here — is simply due to the fact that to begin with, in a still undifferentiated organism, the organic forces were excavated which lead to sight and which, in their final metamorphosis, become the eye. If we were still aware today of the minute processes which go on in the retina in the act of sight, we should realize that even this is fundamentally the existence of a latent pain. All beauty is grounded in suffering. Beauty can only be developed from pain. And one must be able to feel this pain, this suffering. Only through this can we really find our way into the super-sensible world, by going through this pain. To a lesser degree, and at a lower stage of knowledge, this can already be said. He who has acquired even a little knowledge will admit to you: for the good fortune and happiness I had in life, I have my destiny to thank; but only through pain and suffering have I been able to acquire my knowledge. http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/EsoDevel/19220820p01.html.
Ik heb niet de tijd dit te vertalen hooguit te verwijzen naar de datum weet niet welke GA sorry.
<a hrefGA 214 voordracht 8
Dank voor de aanvulling
de bedoeling was een direct link:
GA214 voordracht 8
Bedankt, Pieter. Hier is deze ook in PDF. Dat leest wat gemakkelijker.
http://fvn-archiv.net/PDF/GA/GA214.pdf#page=123