Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the childrens strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesnt comprehend. Dont ask for advice from them and dont expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
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Rainer Maria Rilke was a 19th-century Austrian poet and writer. RenĂ© Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. Read more on Wikipedia →
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