"To find one's way in the world without losing one's humanity in the search, requires a living relationship of the soul to the world. "

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"How do you experience being young in a world that has become frozen in growing old? This is the question of feeling that lives in young people today."

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Rudolf Steiner – The Task of Today's Youth – 16 March 1924

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"It is a fact that what young people miss most of all today is the finding of other human beings. Wherever they go, they find, not human beings, for the human beings have died, but masks, everywhere masks! ...Young people want to join with others; they are looking in others for the human being...Because the human being was no longer there spiritually, each one said to himself: “But I feel, all the same, that the human being must be there.”

 

"...They looked for the human being, looked for him in community, but we should not forget that this has something immensely tragic about it. Many young people have experienced this tragedy. They joined together and believed they were finding the human being. But, nothing of what they were seeking came to fill their community and they became even lonelier than before..How many young people there are today who go in loneliness through the world, conscious that nowhere have they been understood."

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Rudolf Steiner  – Youth in an Age of Light – 9 June 1924