“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone
sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have
this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves,
to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become
easier
for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in
your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your
innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
"To
live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and
refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and
wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with
open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently,
await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden
and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony." William Henry Channing
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
-- Eleonora Duse
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