Everything terrible is something that needs our love.
Interpretation
Embracing pain and hardship with compassion can transform our experience and those around us.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote suggests that even the most difficult and unfortunate aspects of life are in need of our love and attention. By acknowledging and embracing these challenges, we can cultivate a deeper sense of empathy, understanding, and connection to the world, ultimately fostering healing and transformation in ourselves and in others.
In practice
To comfort a friend who is going through a tough time, I shared Rainer Maria Rilke's wisdom on loving our challenges.
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
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
They say love conquers all_x000D_ You can't start it like a car_x000D_ You can't stop it with a gun.
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