Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.
We need, in love, to practice
only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
- Reiner Maria Rilke (Sun Sagittarius, Moon Aquarius, Ascendant Virgo: 9.11.6) (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) from here
We need, in love, to practice
only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
- Reiner Maria Rilke (Sun Sagittarius, Moon Aquarius, Ascendant Virgo: 9.11.6) (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) from here
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