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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Fear, Hippie, Dragons

The only journey is the one within.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Beautiful, Journey

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Rainer Maria Rilke
New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

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Worthy, Happens, Whole

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

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Rose, Important, Pieces

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

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Creating, Profound, Remembrance
Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.63, Modern Library

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

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

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Patience, Heart
Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Endurance, Speak, Conquer

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Time, Giving Up

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

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

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Distance, Twilight, People
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Dream, Stars, Reading

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Inspirational, Life
Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

Rainer Maria Rilke
Song, Years, Circles

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Broken Heart, Letting Go, Practice
Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke”, p.107, Vintage

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Needs, Our Love, Terrible

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.

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

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
One Day, Eternity, Sync
Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.43, Modern Library

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Hands, Friendly, Lost

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Success
Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (1983). “The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, Random House (NY)

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Real, Preparation, Answers

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

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

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Knowing, Answers

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Future, Giving, Waiting

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