Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.
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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). Rilke's … ▶
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.
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