Letters to a young poet

It is hard to believe that this was written by Rilke in 1904 because it speaks to me today in 2007!!!!
Perhaps all the dragons in our life are opening us to grow to the next level!!!! How else would we grow??? OR perhaps that dragon is someone so hurt and confused and just needs our unconditional love. I believe that unconditonal love is what we ALL seek. I guess the biggest thing is to trust that there is a higher plan in all of this......sometimes hard to do that though. I like the last sentence....It will not let you fall!!!

Letters to a Young Poet

How should we be able

to forget those ancient myths that are at the

beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons

that at the last moment turn into princesses;

perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses

who are only waiting to see us once so beautiful and

brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest

being something helpless that wants help from us.

So you must not be frightened; if a sadness

rises up before you larger than you have ever seen; if a

restiveness, like light and cloud

shadows, passes over your hands and over all you

do. You must think that something is happening

with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it

holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall...


By~Rainer Maria Rilke

I would have fewer imaginary troubles too!

I'd Pick More Daisies
By Nadine Stair, age 85

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have on this trip. I would be crazier. I would be less hygienic. I would take more chances, I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets. I would burn more gasoline. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. You see, I am one of those people who lives prophylactically and sensibly and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I have had my moments And if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments,one after another. Instead of living so many years ahead each day. I have been one of those people who never go anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a gargle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it over again, I would go places and do things. I'd travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefooted earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would play hooky more. I wouldn't make such good grades except by accident. I would ride on merry-go-rounds. I'd pick more daisies!

Life

So much of what we do in life is insignificant.
So many things that we think are so important,
End up being meaningless when we step back and look.
So step forward and look into the microscope;
Examine your life and your intentions.

If you feel that things are out of sync
Then change them, change something.
Often, change is what we fear the most
When in reality, it is the best thing for us.

Don’t ask life to come to you,
Ask life to catch up with you.
Don’t wait for miracles,
Create and design your own.

Don’t hold out for other people’s approval,
March right past them.
Knowing that as long as you do what is right for you, for your heart,
No one else’s approval matters.

Don’t sit on the sidelines and be a spectator,
Get in the game and participate.
And if you lose, you will have learned something,
Even if it was at the expense of your pride.

Don’t allow anyone to judge you,
Harsher then you would judge yourself.
For negative criticism has a nasty way of
Picking at your soul and damaging your self-worth.

Don’t wait around for things to happen,
But don’t rush them either.
Push the world at a pace,
That makes you comfortable.

Remember the saying,
Sometimes when you hold out for everything,
You end up with nothing.
Don’t permit that to happen to you.

And most of all, remind yourself,
That this life was given to you on a blank piece of expensive canvas.
It is up to you to paint your picture,
As bright and as colorful as possible, or as muted and quiet as you desire.

Do with it what you want,
Compromise only when you feel necessary,
And be proud of what you have painted.
It will be your greatest legacy.

-Unknown author-

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Do you see anything ODD here???

that would be his link, click here on the word odd and see what you get:
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