Locker at NCNM
Stopping by The National College of Natural Medicine, I found a locker with the following notes attached -
I know what the great cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.
-Henry Miller
Love and death are the greatest gifts given to us, but mostly they are passed on unopened.
...For this is wrong, if anything is wrong: not to enlarge the freedom of a love with all the inner freedom one can summon. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it....
-Rainer Maria Rilke
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
-William Blake
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Reading the Rilke linked-to page, I must add:
...artists in their work sometimes intuit that they must keep transforming, where they love...
and
...We can so easily slip back from what we have struggled to attain, abruptly, into a life we never wanted; can find that we are trapped, as in a dream, and die there, without ever waking up. This can occur. Anyone who has lifted his blood into a years-long work may find that he can’t sustain it, the force of gravity is irresistible, and it falls back, worthless. For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me, in saying it, to understand it. ..
If I have a legitimate fear, it is close to this.
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