The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Life is great and grand and in every case too
big for the ego.
Man with his ego likes to make his world small,
clear and tangible.And that's good. It's pure survival and comprehensible in an uncertain life full of danger.
But then the ego is starting to believe that's it.
And the personality knows and feels there is more to it.
The ego likes to stick to its small and orderly prison.
And the personality knows life around him is greater and mightier and richer than himself.
The ego grabs and wants to control and wants anything to go by.
The personality releases and realizes his limitations.
The ego gropes and grabs and looks for security.
The personality accepts and lets happen and sacrifices.
Therefore Rilke is right, that man must be
defeated.
But not man but his ego-prison, just to release
him.He must thoroughly and completely be defeated by life.
But not by a wicked and malicious enemy.
Only just defeated by the full and grand and loving life saying:
Come and experience.
Open your eyes and see.
Leave your small and limited prison behind and step into the great outer world.
Do not be alone anymore and experience the whole.
Rilke is blessed
May you all be blessed
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