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[a_kosmos]

February 24, 2011
Tricycle Daily Dharma
Open Your Heart

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and

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[roaming]

"Experience (Life) is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, and the lesson after." Albert Einstein

"...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
in Letters to a Young Poet

[a_kosmos]

I love that Rilke quotation!! One of my all-time favorites.

[dealeonessa]

Hello! I just came across your journal through a mutual friend, stardustnprison. I'm a Leo as well and would love to be added to your friends!

[a_kosmos]

Welcome! Leos have to stick together!

[dealeonessa]

I agree! Thanks! :)