Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Everything that frightens us (Rainer Marie Rilke)



   Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have every seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. 

--Rainer Maria Rilke 

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