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Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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Our Task Is To Take This Earth

Rainer Maria Rilke
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. when the illustrious buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into samsara and nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. one cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. but the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. never is a man or a deed wholly samsara or wholly nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. this only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.
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