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More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.
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.
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.
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.
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread
