I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the profound internal transformation and deepening self-awareness that comes with personal growth.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote expresses an introspective journey of self-discovery and transformation. He articulates a process of learning to perceive the world and oneself in a deeper way, suggesting that as he changes, he feels increasingly disconnected from his past self and the relationships he once held. This sense of change complicates communication with others, as he feels that he can no longer relate to those who knew him before this profound shift within him.
In practice
In a discussion about personal development, one might say, 'As Rainer Maria Rilke noted, 'I am learning to see.' This really speaks to how we evolve over time.
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
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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