Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, โ as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world.
Rainer Maria RilkeDo you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.
Rainer Maria RilkeFig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.
Rainer Maria RilkeI don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
Rainer Maria Rilke