Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Interpretation
Embracing openness and solitude fosters personal growth and understanding.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke emphasizes the importance of being open-minded and patient while also valuing moments of solitude. It suggests that these qualities are essential for personal development and deeper insights into oneself and the world.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a mindfulness workshop to encourage participants to embrace solitude.
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
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.
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