Friday, January 22, 2010

Rodney Collin


When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself; 
one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. 
There can be no blame anywhere. 
One swallows what is, and becomes free.


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Rainer Maria Rilke



... I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, 
to have patience with everything unresolved 
in your heart and to try to love the questions 
themselves as if they were locked rooms
or books written in a very foreign language. 
Don't search for the answers, which could not be 
given to you now, because you would not be able 
to live them. And the point is to live everything. 
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday 
far in the future, you will gradually, 
without even noticing it, live your way 
into the answer.


--from Letters to a Young Poet (1903)

An Arabic Poem

                                               "Fill life with yourself, do not let boredom smash it on the rocks of oblivion. ...