posted December 06, 2020 10:30 AM            

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

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posted December 07, 2020 10:33 AM            

You’ve seen the flare of anger; seen two boys
Bunch themselves up into a ball of something
That was mere hate and roll upon the ground
Like a dumb animal attacked by bees:
Actors, sky-towering exaggerators;
The crashing downfall of careering horses,
Casting away their sight, flashing their teeth
As though the skull were peeling from the mouth.

But now you know how such things are forgotten—
For now before you stands the bowl of roses,
The unforgettable, impossibly filled
With that essence of being and bending:
Proffer beyond all power of vision, presence:
That might be ours — that might be our extreme.

Living in silence, endless opening out;
Space being used, without space being taken
From that space which the things around diminish:
Absence of outline, like untinted groundwork
And mere within— so much so strangely tender
And self-illumined — to the very verge —
Where do we know of anything like this?

And this: A feeling able to arise
Through petals being touched by other petals?
And this: That one should open like an eyelid
And lying there beneath it simply eyelids,
All of them closed, as though they had to slumber
Tenfold to quench some inward power of vision?

And then the movement in the roses, look:
Gestures deflected through such tiny angles
They’d all remain invisible unless
Their rays ran streaming out into the cosmos.

posted March 01, 2021 06:11 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
I can tell you about patience.

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posted March 01, 2021 09:38 PM            

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Originally posted by vansio:
by Rainer Maria Rilke

[QUOTE]Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

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posted March 01, 2021 09:38 PM            

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Originally posted by vansio:
by Rainer Maria Rilke

[QUOTE]Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

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posted April 16, 2022 05:06 PM            

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Originally posted by Ayelet:
A true Capricorn.

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