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Let This Darkness Be a Bell TowerQuiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.Rainer Maria Rilke
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Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord. Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim: Know and be still. Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild.Rainer Maria Rilke