Status Updates From The Dark Interval: Letters ...

This is a gentle and powerful book all at once. The translator is right in the introduction when he says Rilke writes as though language is uncontained within sentences. His words flow and drip from the page into my mind. His philosophies are also intertwined with unity of opposites from eastern religious traditions. Really making clear that grief is love.

The human being destroys so many things on his own, and it is not in his power to restore anything.

Alas, only those can go away from us whom we never possessed.

"... the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance... an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation." - Rilke to Anita Forrer (1920)

back here again for another episode of "do you ever think about death"

excited to read rilke again 🙂‍↕️