Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Stars, Attention, Nature, Life, Purpose, Awareness
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“The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Creativity, Self-Discovery, Nature, Personal Growth, Art, Independence
Rainer Maria Rilke Creativity, Self-Discovery, Nature, Personal Growth, Art, Independence“Those who come together in the night time and entwine in swaying delight perform a serious work and gather up sweetness, depth and strength for the song of some poet that is to be, who will rise to tell of unspeakable bliss.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Poetry, Connection, Reflection, Emotion, Creativity
Rainer Maria Rilke Love, Poetry, Connection, Reflection, Emotion, Creativity“Fame – the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Fame Misunderstanding, Public Image, Personal Identity, Fame, Identity, Perception
Rainer Maria Rilke Fame Misunderstanding, Public Image, Personal Identity, Fame, Identity, Perception“We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Time, Intimacy, Life, Relationships, Change, Impermanence
Rainer Maria Rilke Time, Intimacy, Life, Relationships, Change, Impermanence“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Nature, Renewal, Life Journey, Personal Growth, Self-Discovery, Transformation
Rainer Maria Rilke Nature, Renewal, Life Journey, Personal Growth, Self-Discovery, Transformation“Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Quiet Growth, Inner Answers, Silent Development, Growth, Answers, Development
Rainer Maria Rilke Quiet Growth, Inner Answers, Silent Development, Growth, Answers, Development“You are so young; you stand before beginnings. 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. At present you need to live the question.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience, Reflection, Life, Questions, Growth, Personal Development
Rainer Maria Rilke Patience, Reflection, Life, Questions, Growth, Personal Development“In spite of all the farmer’s work and worry, he can’t reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Natural Growth, Earth’s Gift, Life Cycle, Nature, Growth, Patience
Rainer Maria Rilke Natural Growth, Earth’s Gift, Life Cycle, Nature, Growth, Patience“But this press of time – take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Enduring Time, Holy Stillness, Slowing Life, Time, Stillness, Life
Rainer Maria Rilke Enduring Time, Holy Stillness, Slowing Life, Time, Stillness, Life“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Mind, Emotions, Passion, Creativity, Thoughts, Life
Rainer Maria Rilke Mind, Emotions, Passion, Creativity, Thoughts, Life“Everything is gestation and then birthing.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Creation, Growth, Transformation, Change, Life Journey, Personal Growth
Rainer Maria Rilke Creation, Growth, Transformation, Change, Life Journey, Personal Growth“I would describe myself like a landscape I’ve studied at length, in detail; like a word I’m coming to understand; like a pitcher I pour from at mealtime; like my mother’s face; like a ship that carried me when the waters raged.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Identity, Reflection, Life, Understanding, Memory, Personal Growth
Rainer Maria Rilke Identity, Reflection, Life, Understanding, Memory, Personal Growth“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Heart, Self-Discovery, Emotional Turmoil, Reflection, Change, Awareness
Rainer Maria Rilke Heart, Self-Discovery, Emotional Turmoil, Reflection, Change, Awareness“Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private, the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes, and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible, and as nearly as possible, the definitive utterance of this singularity.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Art Experience, Personal Growth, Artistic Journey, Art, Experience, Creation
Rainer Maria Rilke Art Experience, Personal Growth, Artistic Journey, Art, Experience, Creation“In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Friendly Forces, Hands At Work, Facing Difficulty, Forces, Hands, Work
Rainer Maria Rilke Friendly Forces, Hands At Work, Facing Difficulty, Forces, Hands, Work“If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Life, Reflection, Personal Growth, Creativity, Perception, Challenges
Rainer Maria Rilke Life, Reflection, Personal Growth, Creativity, Perception, Challenges“He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Self-Reflection, Humility, Self-Image, Personal Growth, Understanding Self, Objectivity In Life
Rainer Maria Rilke Self-Reflection, Humility, Self-Image, Personal Growth, Understanding Self, Objectivity In Life“Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude, Nature, Dreams, Connection, Peace, Love
Rainer Maria Rilke Solitude, Nature, Dreams, Connection, Peace, Love“Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Inner Destiny, Belonging Fate, Realizing Within, Destiny, Fate, Within
Rainer Maria Rilke Inner Destiny, Belonging Fate, Realizing Within, Destiny, Fate, Within“Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty’s nothing but the beginning of terror we’re still just able to bear.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Angelic Cry, Beauty Terror, Pressed Existence, Cry, Beauty, Terror
Rainer Maria Rilke Angelic Cry, Beauty Terror, Pressed Existence, Cry, Beauty, Terror