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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

The future must enter you long before it happens.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Long, Happens

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
Love, Inspirational, Life
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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
Love, Life, Beauty

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Healing, Emotional, Flow
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Solitude, Introvert

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Important, Deep Inside
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Perspective, Sexually, Conditions

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Country, Moving, Night

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Strength, Faith
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspiring, Nature, Simplicity
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Heart

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Military, Healing, Journey

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Wish, Idealism, Recollection

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Faces, Kind, Unusual
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Life, Inspiring
John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Compassion, Flare Up
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience, Mindfulness, Holy
Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Beach, Confused, Ocean
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Greatness

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Unbearable, Transformation, Difficult
"The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke".

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Self, Want
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Angel, Devil, May

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