“...He perhaps requires of you precisely this existential anxiety in order to begin. Precisely these days of transition are perhaps the period when everything in you is working on him, just as before, as a child you worked on him with bated breath. Be patient and even-tempered and remember that the least we can do is not make his becoming more difficult than the earth makes it for spring when it decides to come.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet(Penguin Classics)

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Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus (Rome, 23 December 1903).

Tagged: God, God Is With You, Patience, existential anxiety, living and surviving, living with God, believing in God, God's coming, Life
Appears In: Quotes About Life
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