Quotes
Rilke
Jan 12 2011
A few thoughts from Rilke I alluded to last evening. -mb
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
I can't make every minute holy.
I don't want to stand before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action,
and in the silent, sometimes hardly
moving times,
when something is coming near.
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone.
I want to unfold
I don't want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
I can't make every minute holy.
I don't want to stand before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action,
and in the silent, sometimes hardly
moving times,
when something is coming near.
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone.
I want to unfold
I don't want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
On Greed
Dec 29 2010
Claude mentioned this after group. I thought it was worth having it here.
Tolkien truly captures the essence of greed.
The dragon’s treasure – Bilbo has stolen a cup from Smaug’s vast horde and then Smaug misses the cup…
“Thieves! Fire! Murder! Such a thing had not happened since first he came to the Mountain! His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. “
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, P. 208
Tolkien truly captures the essence of greed.
The dragon’s treasure – Bilbo has stolen a cup from Smaug’s vast horde and then Smaug misses the cup…
“Thieves! Fire! Murder! Such a thing had not happened since first he came to the Mountain! His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. “
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, P. 208