Through loss, through great, immoderate loss, we are actually quite introduced into the Whole.  Death is only an unsparing way of placing us on intimate and trusting terms with that side of our existence that is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Alexandrine Schwerin, dated 16 June 1922

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∞  July 18, 2012
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