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
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
Be flexible, but stick to your principles.
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.
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