Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the transformation that comes from loss and separation, encouraging growth beyond grief.
Rainer Maria Rilke contemplates the idea of sorrow and loss as ancient human experiences that, while painful, can lead to personal growth and new understandings. He suggests that by releasing our attachments to those we love, we can emerge stronger and transformed, similar to an arrow that, once released, transcends its previous state to become something greater. This metaphor emphasizes the inevitability of change and the importance of embracing the journey of survival and growth amidst grief.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth after loss, you could use this quote to illustrate resilience.
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
Take her away; for she hath lived too long, _x000D_ _x000D_ To fill the world with vicious qualities.
Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
The creature born is the creature dying.
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
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