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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
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“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
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“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
― The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“You are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret.”
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and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret.”
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