O Friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live,
understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living,
what hope of deliverance in death?
what hope of deliverance in death?
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him,
because it has passed from the body:
because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru,
have faith in the true Name!
Kabir says: “It is the Spirit of the quest which helps;
I am the slave of this Spirit of this quest.
~~ Kabir
A Year With Rilke
We have no reason to distrust our world, for it is not against us. If has terrors, they are our terrors. If it has an abyss, it is ours. If dangers are there, we must try to love them. And if we would live with faith in the value of what is challenging, then what now appe to us as most alien will become our truest, most trustworthy frien Let us not forget the ancient myths at the outset of humanity's journey, the myths about dragons that at the last moment transfor into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act just once with beauty and coura Perhaps every terror is, in its deepest essence, something that nee our recognition or help.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Borgeby gärd, Sweden, August 12, 1904
Letters to a Young Poet
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