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
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
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