Paul Kandrah
06-05-2003, 12:34 AM
"We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it
is not against 'us'. If it has terrors, they are 'our' terrors; if
it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we
must try to love them. And only if we arrange our lives in
accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always
trust in the difficult, what now appears to us as the most alien
will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we
forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races,
the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into
princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who
are only waiting to se us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence,
something helpless that wants our love."
---Rainer Maria Rilke
And now I am gone into the silence.
is not against 'us'. If it has terrors, they are 'our' terrors; if
it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we
must try to love them. And only if we arrange our lives in
accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always
trust in the difficult, what now appears to us as the most alien
will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we
forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races,
the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into
princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who
are only waiting to se us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence,
something helpless that wants our love."
---Rainer Maria Rilke
And now I am gone into the silence.