Tag: mystery

• The Tonic of Wildness

  “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us… We can never have enough of nature…We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and…

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  November 13, 2013

  Capitalism, Change, Community, Environment & Sustainability, Food issues, Life, Nature, Photography

  environment, explore, Henry David Thoreau, learn, mystery, nature, requirement, sustainability, unsurveyed, wild, wilderness, wildness

• Rainer Maria Rilke on Patience and Living the Questions

  “I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.…

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  May 5, 2013

  Change, Decisions, Life, Men, Nature, Photography, Quotes, Wisdom, Writing

  1900s, advice, ambiguity, artist, being, books, career, finding, gradual, guidance, heart, identity, inner judgment, letters, Letters to a Young Poet, life, live everything, live the questions, mystery, patience, person, poet, poetry, potential, present, Rainer Maria Rilke, searching, self, trust, trust yourself, unresolved questions, virtue, wisdom, work, writer, writing, young