Rainer Maria Rilke 497 words, 40K views, 15 comments
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On Jun 11, 2013david doane wrote :
I don't like Rilke's use of the word fate, since I think of fate as a predetermined end point, and I don't think any of us have one of those. I don't think I am living in my fate and it is emerging from me. I believe it is important to absorb my real self, which I think of as allow my real self and be true to it, and in the process I transform into who I am. My appreciation of "the future stands still" is that my future is uninvented and unknown, and it is invented by my choices moment by moment and is known in hindsight when I look back and see what I have become. Each of us does move in infinite space, meaning to me that there are infinite possibilities, and the product is and will be the result of my choices in living combined with what life does to me. I don't believe I have full control of my 'fate,' but I do have a significant part in the fate that is unfolding and being invented.
On Jun 11, 2013 david doane wrote :
I don't like Rilke's use of the word fate, since I think of fate as a predetermined end point, and I don't think any of us have one of those. I don't think I am living in my fate and it is emerging from me. I believe it is important to absorb my real self, which I think of as allow my real self and be true to it, and in the process I transform into who I am. My appreciation of "the future stands still" is that my future is uninvented and unknown, and it is invented by my choices moment by moment and is known in hindsight when I look back and see what I have become. Each of us does move in infinite space, meaning to me that there are infinite possibilities, and the product is and will be the result of my choices in living combined with what life does to me. I don't believe I have full control of my 'fate,' but I do have a significant part in the fate that is unfolding and being invented.