Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of being receptive to insights and truths that emerge from stillness and contemplation.
Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that amidst the noise and distractions of life, we often overlook the profound insights that can come from moments of silence and reflection. By actively listening to the 'news' that emerges from silence, we can discover deeper truths about ourselves and the world around us, encouraging a mindful and introspective approach to existence.
In practice
During a meditation class, one could use this quote to encourage participants to focus on their inner thoughts.
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
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?
It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.
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