Keep yourself open to the unexpected and the incomprehensible
“For it is not only indolence that causes human relationships to be repeated from case to case with such unspeakable monotony and boredom; it is timidity before any new, inconceivable experience, which we don’t think we can deal with. But only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
–Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
February 14th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
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