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[meingeheimnis]

due to my illness, i have reached my (adjusted) goals for how many books i wanted to read this year, with about two weeks to read the mammoth-sized book i just got from the library. a little closer to the year, i am going to go through the books i have read in the past year. i like looking back, measuring time through the stories i've read.

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[anonymous]

:) How many books did you read?

[aeleorn]

I like those quotes a lot.
So accurate - in a way...

Thanks for sharing!

[blauermontag]

"Du musst das Leben nicht verstehen, dann wird es werden wie ein Fest …" - Rilke is perfectly divine … thank you for reminding me …

[ari_is_me_and]

letters to a young poet and on love and other difficulties are two of my all-time favorites: my favorite professor (and now advisor) teaches them in a a number of his art history classes at my college. contemplate the rilke in relation to these excerpts from thoreau's walden:

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

good stuff, no?

[emmarose06]

I have been reading/awaiting aucune for well over a year now and love it more each time i read it...But one can not deny a lover of Rilke.-although, my favorite' quote resonates through my very being with this one...
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" For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed; it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own experience. -Letter 8

I feel this is almost the mantra of my life...true to the core. No other can touch me. Make sure that when you have time, read Rilke's book of Hours.

Update when your life's trials allow- life and love come before hobby... and like all others,I await your usual brilliance.