This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
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This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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