If a sadness rises in front of you,
larger than any you have ever seen;
if an anxiety like light and cloud-shadows
moves over your hands and over everything you do.
You must realize that something is happening to you,
that life has not forgotten you,
that it holds you in its hand
and will not let you fall.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
Letters to a Young Poet
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So encouraging…soothing and kind.
I printed his words to carry in my purse. It moves and touches me some place deep where the truth rests, every time I read it.
I so love Rilke….and you!
ditto on both counts! XXXO
I am reading a book by Margaret Wheatley called Turning to One Another and she uses this exact piece of Rilke in her book.
Powerful.