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Secrets of my heart-Ernesto Cortazar
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only
waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something
helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Daniel Gerhartz Painting
Therefore, love your solitude and try to sing out with
the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away...
and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast....
be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone
with you, and be gentle with
those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and
don't torment them with your
doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they
wouldn't be able to comprehend.
Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common
with them, which doesn't necessarily
have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you
see them, love life in a form that is not
your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who
are afraid of the aloneness that you
trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love
that is being stored up for you like an
inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength
and a blessing so large that you can travel
as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that
we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise;
like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just
withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more
terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived,
rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Daniel Gerhartz Painting
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery,
any depression, since after all you don't know what work these
conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself
with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going?
Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and
you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything
unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means
by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply
help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it,
since that is the way it gets better.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Richard Johnson Art
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love
the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are
now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some
distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled
among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life
may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours.
Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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