How to Bloom
The almond trees in bloom: all we can accomplish here is to ever know ourselves in our earthly appearance.
I endlessly marvel at you, blissful ones—at your demeanor, the way you bear your vanishing adornment with timeless purpose. Ah, to understand how to bloom: then would the heart be carried beyond all milder dangers, to be consoled in the great one.
-Rilke, Uncollected Poems
(Translation Macy/Barrows)
Art: Vincent Van Gogh, Almond Tree Blossoms
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