Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes, Thoughts and images

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

What batters you becomes your strength.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

The only journey is the one within.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things