Be ahead of all parting, as though it were already behind you, like the winter that hast gone by. For among those winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “Do not be bewildered by the surfaces…”
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes – “Of all who move through the quiet houses, you are the quietest…”
You come and go. The doors swing closed ever more gently, almost without a shudder. Of all who move through the quiet houses, you are the quietest. We become so accustomed to you, we no longer look up when your shadow falls over the book we are reading and makes it glow. For all things sing you: at times we […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively…”
The Man Watching I can tell by the way the trees beat, after so many dull days, on my worried windowpanes that a storm is coming, and I hear the far-off fields say things I can’t bear without a friend, I can’t love without a sister. The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on across the woods and across time, […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses…”
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart…”
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is […]
Mahmud Shabistari Quote – “The stakes are high for real prayer…”
The stakes are high for real prayer. You must gamble yourself and be willing to lose. When you have done this, and your self shakes off what you believed your self to be, then no prayer remains, only a sparkle of the eyes. Knower and known are one. If you penetrate the center of time and space, You can bypass […]
Mahmud Shabistari Quote – “Go sweep out the chamber of your heart…”
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties. Mahmud Shabistari (1288 – 1340)
Arthur Schopenhauer Quote – “All truth passes through three stages…”
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Men are like rivers, the water is the same in one and all…”
One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special definite qualities: that he is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. Men are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic, or the reverse; […]
