I just know when

I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good… I don’t think I’m a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they’ll come back and … Read more

The man [who] is

The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This has nothing to do with earthly wealth, power, or prestige. The only true test of greatness, blessedness, joyfulness is how close can a life come to being like the Master, Jesus Christ. He … Read more

Often nothing keeps the

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him …. How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. … Read more

Slowly but surely I

Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has … Read more