The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. Rainer Maria Rilke secretive want lying Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. Rainer Maria Rilke marvelous pure joy 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 sadness important life We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors. Rainer Maria Rilke eyebrows mirrors real Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life. Rainer Maria Rilke law morning men What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love. Rainer Maria Rilke happenings worthy self A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's. Rainer Maria Rilke sky heart bird In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Rainer Maria Rilke adversity life hands When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. Rainer Maria Rilke small-things feelings One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star! Rainer Maria Rilke next stars stones I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way. Rainer Maria Rilke wish way thinking It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead. Rainer Maria Rilke sweet giving people 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 flower love children Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve. Rainer Maria Rilke curves circles letting-go Our heart always transcends us. Rainer Maria Rilke heart 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 sync one-day eternity Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say. Rainer Maria Rilke destiny wish life How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode. Rainer Maria Rilke grief dark night 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. Rainer Maria Rilke endure able angel Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it. Rainer Maria Rilke alive inspirational people
