Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that fate is shaped by our early experiences and perspectives from childhood.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote implies that what we perceive as fate is often rooted in our formative years. It encourages us to reflect on how our childhood influences our beliefs and choices, suggesting that our understanding of destiny is largely a product of our early life experiences rather than an external, predetermined force.
In practice
In a discussion about how our past shapes our future choices.
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
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil
The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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