only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
Interpretation
Being open to all experiences allows for a deeper, more alive connection with others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of embracing all aspects of life, even those that seem incomprehensible, in order to cultivate meaningful relationships. Rilke suggests that true connection with others can only occur when we are fully open to our experiences and willing to explore the depths of our own selves, leading to a richer understanding of both ourselves and our loved ones.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a relationship counseling session to emphasize openness.
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
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
Anti-Asian racism is very real, and it will not be solved with an opulent rom-com or Marvel superhero, but with you - the bystanders - acknowledging the validity of our pain.
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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