the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
Interpretation
The awareness of life's transient nature enhances our appreciation for each moment.
Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that recognizing the impermanence of life serves as a poignant reminder of its beauty, depth, and significance. This knowledge, which can be unsettling, ultimately enriches our experiences and imbues our days with a sense of preciousness, allowing us to savor the fleeting moments that make life meaningful.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of mindfulness, this quote reminds everyone to cherish the moment.
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
If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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