Quotes and poems
As inspiration and something to think about
"The most important hour is always the present,
the most important person is always
who stands in front of you
and the most necessary work is always love."
(Master Eckehart)
One should let things
have their own, silent
undisturbed development,
that comes deeply from within
and cannot be forced
or accelerated by anything.
All is full-born
and then bear...
Maturing as the tree,
that does not push its saps
and stands staunchly in the storms of spring,
without fear
that after it perhaps
a summer would not come.
Yet it comes!
However, it comes only to the patient ones,
who are there, as if eternity
lies before them,
so careless, quiet and wide...
One should be patient
with the unresolved in the heart,
and attempt to love the questions themselves,
like closed rooms,
and like books, that in a very special language
have been written.
What matters is to live everything.
When one lives the questions,
one will maybe live gradually
without noticing,
on a special day,
into the answer.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
What moves me
The yes, the openness and the love
these are the keys that open the prison door.
(Arnaud Desjardins)
Ancestors
How many thousands of ancestors
have been, you are.
From many thousand days
the today grew to you.
Each of your ancestors
carried life to you.
Not a single one may be missing,
otherwise you would not be here.
Even what you have long forgotten,
still lives on in you.
The happiness and sorrow of yesterday
weaves in the new day.
So pride mixes with humility.
You live only because nothing is missing.
But to your life
only you are chosen.
Felix von Schroeder (1912-2003)
