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164. The Value of Thinking for Satisfying our Quest for Knowledge: The Relationship Between Spiritual Science and Natural Science V 04 Oct 1915, Dornach

In the moment when you do not think of the atom materially, when you think that the atom is not something material but something else, one can think of the atom as indivisible, just as the human ego is also thought of as indivisible. Suppose the atom is force, then you can also think of it as being put together.
165. The Conceptual World and Its Relationship to Reality: Lecture Two 16 Jan 1916, Dornach

Only this made it possible to understand how the Christ, as a kind of cosmic ego, permeates the bodies, so that you first knew something about these bodies. For those who in the future will seek an understanding of the Christ, knowledge of the structure of the human being must be the essential preparation.
169. Toward Imagination: The Twelve Human Senses 20 Jun 1916, Berlin
Translated by Sabine H. Seiler

This sense of speech must not be confused with the sense of thinking, which in turn is not identical with the ego sense. I would like to give you an example of how people can go wrong in our time in this matter of the senses.
190. The Spiritual Background of the Social Question: Lecture VI 14 Apr 1919, Dornach
Translator Unknown

When I recently depicted how Man is really capable of development from outside only up to the 28th year today, and how development comes to an end at that point of time when he is standing just before the mind-soul and the Ego but does not come to them, and thereby goes to meet a certain inner emptiness—this, then, is an important truth for the present time.
159. The Mystery of Death: The Intimate Element of the Central European Culture and the Central European Striving 07 Mar 1915, Leipzig
Translator Unknown

If anybody could arouse deeper interests in the big events of life in the souls dedicating themselves to spiritual science—this would be so desirable, especially now—events that lead the soul from the ken of its ego to the large horizon of humankind! Then one were able to deepen the look, the whole attitude of the souls who recognise the encompassing forces, because they have taken up spiritual science in themselves, and release them from the interest in the narrow forces that deal only with the individual human being!
304. Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy I: Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and the Great Questions of our Present Civilization 23 Feb 1921, The Hague
Translated by René M. Querido

If someone’s memory were to be completely erased, the ego or I of such a person would be virtually destroyed. Severe soul sickness would befall such an individual.
297a. Education for Life: Self-Education and Pedagogical Practice: Religious and Moral Education in the Light of Anthroposophy 04 Nov 1922, The Hague

When we teach the child, we notice that before this moment, which lies between the ages of nine and ten, he does not yet properly distinguish himself from his environment, does not properly experience himself as an ego - even if he has long been saying “I” to himself. In this moment of life, he really learns to distinguish himself from his environment.
281. Poetry and the Art of Speech: Lecture V 30 Jul 1921, Darmstadt
Translated by Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

It is mainly breathing which lives in Greek rhythm (being closer to thought than the blood-circulation), but the experience of blood-circulation was rightly regarded by ancient spiritual researchers as the immediate expression of human personality, the human ego. And this is what lives in the Nordic treatment of speech. Here we see how the blood-rhythm strikes in and the breathing rhythm recedes.
108. The Poetry and Meaning of Fairy Tales: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales 26 Dec 1908, Berlin
Translated by Ruth Pusch

By means of the consciousness soul we can see all those spiritual beings that have remained behind at the stage where the human being had only the sheath of the ego. We see them living at that point, not able to do much with their minute strength, and as we see their forms in images according to their inner nature, they appear to us as dwarfs.
342. Lectures and Courses on Christian Religious Work I: Third Lecture 14 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

But because man is satisfied in this way, in that he seemingly gets the whole world into his ego, he loses the social connection with the rest of the world, and that which should live as a social being is atomized, atomized right down to the individual.

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