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More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.
And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
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.
