Rainer Maria Rilke

“Song is reality. Simple, for a god. But when can we be real?”

“Slow your nights of stars and longing — too much of you is not yet sated.”

“Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you.”

“Move through transformation, out and in. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine.”

“Be — and at the same time know the implication of non-being.”

“To be ahead of all parting, like the winter that is just going.”

“For among winters one is so endlessly winter, that, overwintering, your heart will master.”

“Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we are.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”