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Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of remembrance.

How telling that people have defined the human to be the common element & the site where everyone can find & recognize each other. One has to learn to realize that it is precisely the human that makes us lonely.

We do not acquire wealth by letting something remain & wilt in our hands but only by letting everything pass through their grasp as if through the festive gate of return & homecoming. Our hands ought not to be a coffin for us but a bed sheltering the twilight slumber & dreams of the things held there, out of whose depths their dearest secrets speak.

Been doing immersion reading with the ebook & also the audiobook version of this narrated by Ethan Hawke, which has been great so far!

“For love is the actual climate of fate: no matter how far it stretches its path through the heavens along its milky way composed of millions of stars of blood,….Not even the gods in the metamorphoses of their passion were sufficiently powerful to liberate from the entanglements of this fertile soil the startled, fleeing beloved on our earth.” By Rainer Maria Rilke

“life is transformation: all that is good is transformation and all that is bad as well.”

The Poet's Guide to Life
Rainer Maria Rilke