This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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