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Georg Klewind (1924�2006) was a Hungarian philosopher, writer, lecturer, and meditation teacher who worked from the tradition of Rudolf Steiner spiritual science. Setting aside his early interest in music and psychology, he pursued a successful professional career as a physical chemist. Meanwhile, he continued to deepen his spiritual practice and insights. A prolific author (most of whose works are still only in German), Georg Klewind spent much time traveling the world, lecturing and leading workshops and seminars in meditation, psychology, epistemology, child development, anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity. He was the author of numerous books. Klewind died January 15, 2006 at the age of 83.
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Michael Lipson, PhD, the author of Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life (2002) and Group Meditation (2011), is also the translator of Rudolf Steiner Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom and of numerous books by Georg Klewind. After working with children with HIV/AIDS for nine years in New York City's Harlem Hospital, he moved with his wife and two children to the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Dr. Lipson conducts a practice in Clinical Psychology and teaches meditation internationally. He is a frequent host of the radio call-in show Vox Pop on WAMC, a local NPR affiliate station in Upstate New York.
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From what is thought to Thinking
From what is felt to Feeling
From what is willed to Willing
Every spiritual practice, every exercise of consciousness, all meditationndeed, every moment of true awarenesse do with the entle will,� even if we are unaware of it initially and cannot fully activate it yet. In the course of practice, however, the gentle will begins to shine, and we gradually gain the ability to access it in our ordinary, daily activities, allowing our lives to become infinitely richer, meaningful, and creative.
The gentle will is relaxed, receptive, expressive, creative, soft, light, and playful. It is not rigid or cramped. We use the gentle will in artistic activities such as playing a musical instrument, writing a poem, or painting a picture. It is the original will of the human being, the will of the .� The gentle will is not the determined, useful, goal-oriented, egoistic, working will of Sisyphus, who will never be able to roll his boulder up the mountain. The gentle will is free of me-feeling and egoism. In this way, it differs from the ard will,� which works through egoism.
Today, however, all life is governed by the principle of usefulness, utility, comfort, and efficiencyhe hard will of egoism. This approach has brought the world to the brink of catastrophe, regardless of what technocrats say or think about it.
Georg Klewind writes in this book that the only hope he sees of avoiding destruction is a change in human consciousness; the ard will� must become the entle will.� To this end, he provides exercises through which we may transform the hard will into the gentle will.
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