Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
Interpretation
The quote invites contemplation on the divine presence that has been a constant part of existence throughout time.
Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that God should be perceived as an ever-approaching entity, a culmination of existence that we are all interconnected with. He uses the metaphor of a tree, where humans are like leaves, to illustrate that we are part of a larger spiritual journey that has been unfolding since eternity, emphasizing our relationship with the divine and the significance of our existence within this greater reality.
In practice
During a spiritual retreat, this quote can inspire participants to reflect on their connection to the divine.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.
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