September 10, 2011

Fight Harmlessly

Battle of Flowers

How gladly, my young friend, I would respond to your new leaflet; but here the words come hard to me. On the whole I want to acknowledge that you do well to approach this conflict as a matter intimately related to your own disposition. This is surely the most responsible attitude. You must only take care to eliminate from the tone you use all consternation and reproachfulness. My friend, this is important: fight harmlessly.

Letter to Rudolf Bodlander
March 23, 1922

2 comments:

  1. "Fight harmlessly" reminds me of "If I had a hammer....I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters."

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  2. On the whole I want to acknowledge that you do well to approach this conflict as a matter intimately related to your own disposition.

    let go the ego~ see things for what they are, not how we react to them viscerally.

    it's a practice.

    xo
    erin

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"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Go ahead, bloom recklessly!