Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
Interpretation
The quote invites contemplation on the divine presence that has been a constant part of existence throughout time.
Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that God should be perceived as an ever-approaching entity, a culmination of existence that we are all interconnected with. He uses the metaphor of a tree, where humans are like leaves, to illustrate that we are part of a larger spiritual journey that has been unfolding since eternity, emphasizing our relationship with the divine and the significance of our existence within this greater reality.
In practice
During a spiritual retreat, this quote can inspire participants to reflect on their connection to the divine.
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
I drink for the thirst to come.
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
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