I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. ✨ …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (1996). Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
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