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justjordie's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
such a quick read. but does not mean that it was lacking in substance or meaning. reminders to explore in order to find meaning to your own existence. whatever you find, stick to it with your entire life.
annaonpluto's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Oh how I love this book.
These letters are so... rilke you ate here! Kappus was so admirative of Rilke, it's honestly adorable! And Rilke's advice is so amazing and thoughtful.
These letters are so... rilke you ate here! Kappus was so admirative of Rilke, it's honestly adorable! And Rilke's advice is so amazing and thoughtful.
abitliterate's review against another edition
5.0
Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person... it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person...
i bought this book at savers and saw it had a note in it that read: "This book helped me find my passion in life; it hope it helps you find yours, too."
i read it very quickly but hope to savor it for a long time :)) i feel like it found me at the right moment. would be worth giving a try for anyone, i think!
... this more human love (which will fulfill itself with infinite consideration and gentleness, and kindness and clarity in binding and releasing) will resemble what we are now preparing painfully and with great struggle: the love that consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
elmachogato's review against another edition
vv glad that i read this during this stage of my life. <333
as if eternity lay before them.
as if eternity lay before them.
linamaria's review against another edition
5.0
Esta recopilación epistolar comprende diez cartas escritas entre 1903 y 1906, firmadas por Rilke y dirigidas a Franz Xaver Kappus. Cada una de las diez cartas guarda en sus letras mucha sabiduría, es posible encontrar en ellas reflexiones sobre el arte, la escritura, el amor, la amistad, la vida. La cuarta carta es realmente bella, llena de alusiones a la vida, pero no de alusiones vacías de sentido, por el contrario se encuentran llenas de experiencias en las que se invita a amar todos los matices de la vida. Rilke nos invita a través de sus palabras a aceptar la vida en su totalidad, con alegrías, con tristezas, pues en esa totalidad es donde radica su intensidad.
Un libro muy bello y al que seguramente volveré en otros momentos de mi vida, pues este es de esos textos que siempre tendrán algo más que decirnos dependiendo del momento en el que nos encontremos.
Un libro muy bello y al que seguramente volveré en otros momentos de mi vida, pues este es de esos textos que siempre tendrán algo más que decirnos dependiendo del momento en el que nos encontremos.
mathan's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.5
zoecgreen's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
“You well know you are in a period of transition and want nothing more than to be transformed. If there is something ailing in the way you go about things, then remember that sickness is the means by which an organism rids itself of something foreign to it.”