not understanding

"Most of my life has been spent not understanding, and I can assure you, it was not easy." - Rilke

rilke in the afternoon

"And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything."
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

fog

"Forbid yourself to judge life during these fog-bound times that allow you no sight of its sweeping panorama." - Rainer Maria Rilke