Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

It's hard to be patient. It's hard to sit back and actually wait and allow everything - just let it be.

The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

Everybody is going to have their own issues that they bring to the table, but for me, the best thing is just giving over to whatever is there and trusting whatever is there and enjoying it.

It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.

Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen has nothing to do with your expectations and your desires. You just let it come in; don't block the way. Remove yourself out of your own way. This time, with no expectations, no desires, no hopes, just meditate.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.