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More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
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.
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.
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.
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
