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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.



Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.



Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final



Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.



Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.



Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.



This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.



And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been



But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.



If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.





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If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.



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