Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.โ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfoldโ, comes at long last over everyone.
Rainer Maria RilkeWe are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
Rainer Maria RilkeIf we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Rainer Maria Rilke