Get the Quote of the Day from Rainer Maria Rilke
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.
Grief is our spirit's fodder.
Pour your emptiness into the breeze - the birds may soar more swiftly for it.
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
... keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
Live the questions now.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
The only journey is the one within.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
I feel it now...there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.
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?
... only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
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