Neighboring Solitudes
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
Excerpt from Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties
Illustration: Altered Hermit card from Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck
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What an insightful and beautiful quote…
realizing the distance … loving it … then being one …
Love the image… sometimes things in perspective look much more beautiful.
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I invite you to a poetry game here:
http://waxinggrasshopper.blogspot.com/2008/04/we-walk-seven-day-mile.html
Hopper said we can invite friends.
Wonderful wisdom there! Remembering to see your loved ones as a whole, instead of all the picky little things, could greatly improve one’s outlook.
Thank you, Human Being.
I would rather live side by side than reduced into one. Thank you for the invitation.
Thanks, Shawn.
It’s so different from the enmeshed, romantic love that leaves little room for growth.
” romantic love that leaves little room for growth.”
Hmmmmm…
there is much wisdom in your word as always… didn’t look at it from this perspective…