"Were it possible for us to see futher than our knowledge reaches, and yet a
little way beyond the outworks of our diving, perhaps we would endure our
sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments
when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings
grow mute in shy perpexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes,
and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent."
"And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is
sad: because the apparently uneventful and stark moment at which our future
sets foot in us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and
fortuitous point of time at which it happens to us as if from outside."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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This sounds so familiar. Where have I heard this before?
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