He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe only journey is the one within.
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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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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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