What a wonderful experience it's been to follow this blog, and experience the luminous writings of Rilke offered daily so generously and so gently by the proprietors. I look forward very much to the new endeavor, and thank you sincerely for…
Thank you, Ruth and Lorenzo, for this amazing contribution to the daily lives of so many during the past year. There have been many situations in which the morning reading of Rilke changed the course of my day, always for the better of cour…
Darn. I missed the entire year...just stumbled onto this via Twitter...I've never heard of Rilke...but thanks to your blog I can read more. Seems lovely and inspiring.Happy New Year! If only I could be awake to it all the time, every split
To be always open to seeing the possibilities and the beauty they hold.... Isnt he saying that we tend not to present our real selves to the world; that we are usually contradictory and may even live lives in contradiction to who we really
Writing like this just leaves me awed. Just writing in to tell you that I'm a big fan of your blog. I read every update. Love Rilke, and Rumi too! I need to place my work into such thoughts "Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it wer…
Well there it is—probably the best advice that can ever be given to an aspiring artist of any kind. Also great advice on how to live one's life—going to the source deep within, accepting the answers you find, bearing your lot, both "its bur…
This speaks beautifully to our need to experience the whole of the world, both its beauty and its ugliness, to understand our place in it, what we contribute to it. To be in that thin place is, perhaps, when choice becomes clearest. We can
For those who might not know "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" is available in full text at Internet Archives. This and the quote yesterday are lovely. "Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, ther…
I was just reading this only novel of Rilke's the other day and pulled a quote for a Thought for the Day for my blog. I am 56 years old and love my age... because of all those facets Rilke describes: the rich experience of life that bring t…
I was struck by the fact that Aivazovsky's father taught him to play violin and helped him learn the Ukraine and Polish language. Can you imagine! Also, he gave back. To art and his community.Reciprocity. "Everything is blooming most reckle…
Thanks again, Ruth and Lorenzo, for featuring one of my abstract photos. As for Rilke's letter, I suppose this is the great balancing act we all face—to be open to death, rather than live in constant fear of it, and yet to live in a way tha…
As I read this, I can't get over how DEEP this man was. His works are so descriptive. I read that and my mind was filled with images of Autumn.... This is quite wonderful, if you like a rich melancholy. I like a rich melancholy.I detect the…