In Letter 7, the first subject of philosophical discourse is love. Don't you think that with the right mindset, that is the kind of 'becoming' that takes place when we allow ourselves to embrace solitude and truly live there for a bit? For those are the moments when something new enters into us, something unfamiliar our feelings grow mute out of shy diffidence everything in us pulls back, a stillness descends, and the new that no one knows stands mutely amidst all this." Beautiful. In letter 7 Rilke states, " Were it possible for us to see further than the reach of our knowledge and even a little past the antechambers of our premonitions, then we would perhaps endure our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. I think it ties to what Dawn said about sadness and that it is "part of our deepest essence." We must recognize and accept the intricacies of who we are as individuals, deal with them, allow them to mold us into becoming what we hope to become. A couple of places in letters 7 and 8 gave me pause: "We know little, but that we should hew to what is difficult is a certainty that will not abandon us it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult the fact that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it." I like this idea of embracing solitude.
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