Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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The only journey is the one within.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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