Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
Interpretation
Our fears often prevent us from accessing our true potential and the treasures that lie within us.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote suggests that our deepest fears are formidable obstacles, akin to dragons, that impede our journey toward discovering our greatest strengths and treasures. It emphasizes the importance of confronting these fears to unlock our potential and achieve personal growth.
In practice
This quote can inspire people at a motivational seminar about personal development.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
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.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.
It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.
If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.