More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
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.
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
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.
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
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.
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
