Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.
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A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke, Buddha In Glory
And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
All things want to float. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2011). Sonnets to Orpheus, p.83, Wesleyan University Press
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Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.

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