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Rainer Maria Rilke says I live not in dreams…

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke says believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance…

“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 … Continue reading

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Rainer Maria Rilke says only someone who is ready for everything…

“Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters … Continue reading

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Rainer Maria Rilke says we need, in love, to practice only this…

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke says that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks…

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the … Continue reading

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Rainer Maria Rilke says 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.” – … Continue reading

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