I live my life in widening circles
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete the last one,
but I will try.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Live
“Life: solitary and free like the tree, and brotherly like the forest — that is our longing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am so afraid of people’s words
I am so afraid of people’s words.
They speak everything so clearly.
And this is called dog, and that is called house.
And here is the beginning, and there is the end.
I am also afraid of their meaning, their game with mockery.
They know everything that will be and was.
No mountain is wondrous to them anymore.
Their garden and estate border directly on God.
I always want to warn and defend: stay away,
I love to hear things sing.
You touch them: they are rigid and mute.
You are destroying all these things for me.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The meaning of life
The meaning of life is to be eternal in every moment. The only true immortality is that which we can already possess fully in this life. Personal survival is unreal and without value. What we need is a deep life, not a long one.
Kurt Schleiermacher
Our true life lies deep within us
Our true life lies deep within us.
What we perceive as restlessness and weakness is in reality only a ripple on the surface.
In the depths there is calm, certainty, and freedom.
Therefore we should descend each day, in silence, into the deep ground of our soul
and become aware of the true life within us.
Then our words and actions, too, will be revelations of truth.
Tagore
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