The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
Rainer Maria RilkeYour preparation for the real world is not in the answers youโve learned, but in the questions youโve learned how to ask yourself.
Rainer Maria RilkeLive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria RilkeOnly those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.
Rainer Maria Rilke