Rilke - The Value of Sadness

Try to stay with your grief instead of running away from it, suggests great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke writes that it is better to make room for grief, as difficult as this is, to notice how it changes us. "How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.... So you must not be frightened … if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen....You must think that...life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall."
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