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

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  Worthy, Happens, Whole

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• 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.

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  Stars, Night, Spinning

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Buddha In Glory”

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

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  Love, Marriage, Insperational

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

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• Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

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  Moving, Law, People

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• This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

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  Fall, Bird, Teach

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

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• 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

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• It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

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  Hands, Knowing, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.50, Modern Library

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• Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

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  Friendship, Emo, Sadness

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• I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.

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  Heart, Inner Peace, Relaxation

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

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  Wish, Idealism, Recollection

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

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  Night, Magic, Force

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• 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.

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  Faces, Kind, Unusual

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

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  I Love You More, Fire, Darkness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• 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.

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  Distance, Twilight, People

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• The only journey is the one within.

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  Life, Beautiful, Journey

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

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  Life, Knowing, Answers

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• Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life

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  Art, Believe, Space

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

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  Children, Solitude, Able

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 6, 1929.

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• Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

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  Observation, Conclusion, Draws

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

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  Beauty Everywhere

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2013). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

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  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

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  Reading, Eye, Blood

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• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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  Future, Order, Long

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• 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.

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  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

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  Impermanence, Fragrance

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