I don't quite know why but today seems a day for some of my favourite Rainer Maria Rilke quotations. He died in 1923 but I feel that many of his words have a contemporary ring to them. They are worth further study...
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame
yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the
Creator, there is no poverty."
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."
"The only journey is the one within."
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing
down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which
each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and
thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two
people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a
hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of
their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is
accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a
marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in
loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of
always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. ”
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