You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds … - Rainer Maria Rilke

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The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You must realise 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.

Fall, Forgotten, Hands, Let, Life

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Inspirational, Life, Live, Love, Seek, Toward

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Days, Fragrance, Impermanence, Knowledge

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

Away, Endure, Give, Light, Love, Mean

Think. . . of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Healing, Thinking, Self, Future, Way

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

Fate, Make, Patient, Quieter, Sadness

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