From Concentrate

Life Preservers - Vol. 00.70

From Concentrate

Patience to endure,
simplicity of faith,
confidence in what is Difficult,
solitude among other people;
let life happen to you,
concentrate you
and lift you up pure.
As you face your childhood,
everything that makes more of you, is good;
if it is in your entire blood.

Source Material: Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Letters To A Young Poet.” Translated by Stephen Mitchell, The Modern Library, 1984, pp. 101 - 2020