The course of the year has its own life. With this life the human soul
can unfold a feeling-unison. If the soul opens itself to the influences
that speak so variously to it week by week, it will find the right
perception of itself. Thereby the soul will feel forces growing within
that will strengthen it. It will observe that such inward forces want
to be awakened awakened by the soul's ability to partake in the
meaningful course of the world as it comes to life in the rhythms of
time. Thereby the soul becomes fully aware of the delicate, yet vital
threads that exist between itself and the world into which it has
been born.
In this calendar a verse is inscribed for each week. This will enable
the soul to participate actively in the progressing life of the year
as it unfolds from week to week. Each verse should resound in the
soul as it unites with the life of the year. A healthy feeling of
at one-ness with the course of Nature, and from this a vigorous
finding of oneself is here intended, in the belief that, for the
soul, a feeling-unison with the world's course as unfolded in these
verses is something for which the soul longs when it rightly understands
itself.
Rudolf Steiner
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