Sketch, by Auguste Rodin
Outside of poetry and art, security is only and ever achieved at the cost of the most inescapable limitation. This diminishment consists of choosing to be satisfied and pleasured by a world where everything is known and where preoccupation with self is both possible and useful. But how could we want that? Our security must become a relationship to the whole, omitting nothing.
Letter to Ilse Erdman
October 9, 1916
always so much depth in his thoughts...that what i love with rilke
ReplyDeleteWho has not known the delusions that come with attempting to find security in "a world where everything is known and where preoccupation with self is both possible and useful." Embracing the whole of life, "omitting nothing," as Rilke says, is the only way to true security.
ReplyDeletesecurity and safety - i've been talking about this a lot lately. this is another conversation of contradiction i am engaged in. i do not want for security or safety, for it lulls me into a stupor, never mind being a great self deceit. and yet a part of me moves toward being lied to. it is this way in regards to death, too. inside of the friction of these contradictory conversations i breathe, showing myself that i am living.
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erin
Neat,nothing like a Rodin.
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