Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears. The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much as the curve of the body as it turns away. What locks itself in sameness has congealed. Is it safer to be gray and numb? What turns hard becomes rigid and is easily shattered. Pour yourself out like a fountain. Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins. Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. And Daphne, becoming a laurel, dares you to become the wind.
"Part Two, XII" ["Want the change"], from The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the original German and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.
“Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.”
I love how this reminds me of his idea that living with the questions is so much more important than finding answers.
The power of embracing transformation. The only way a creative survives I think.