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Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Cat, Add

No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Way, Helping, Existentialism

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Flower, Tree, Doe

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Giving, Fabric, Shapes
Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Law, One Thing

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go, the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Art, Spring, Unique

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature, Spring, Heart
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters”

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Mind, Trash

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Spiritual, Giving, Advice
Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.13, Courier Corporation

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Children, Flower
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Struggle, Identity, Cost
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.62, New World Library

Where I create, there I am true.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Believe, Winning, Needs

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke, “A Walk”

All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Fall, Order, Two

And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Morning, Fire

To be here is immense.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Generosity, Immense

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Destiny, Hands, Wonderful
Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Sadness, Important

The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

Rainer Maria Rilke
New Experiences, Silence, Feelings
Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

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

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Heart, Simple, Feelings
Rainer Maria Rilke “Letters: 1910-1926”

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Life, Sexy

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Mean, Light
Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Night, Magic, Force

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