Rainer Maria Rilke
"Não sabemos muito bem que a proteção da dor não funciona e que quando tentamos nos defender do sofrimento só sofremos mais e não aprendemos nada com a experiência? Como Rilke escreveu, o coração protegido que "nunca é exposto à perda, inocente e seguro, não pode conhecer a ternura; somente o coração vencedor pode ser sempre satisfeito, livre de tudo que desistiu, pode alegrar-se em seu domínio."
"Don’t we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and don’t learn what we can from the experience? As Rilke wrote, the protected heart that is “never exposed to loss, innocent and secure, cannot know tenderness; only the won-back heart can ever be satisfied: free, through all it has given up, to rejoice in its mastery."
"Don’t we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and don’t learn what we can from the experience? As Rilke wrote, the protected heart that is “never exposed to loss, innocent and secure, cannot know tenderness; only the won-back heart can ever be satisfied: free, through all it has given up, to rejoice in its mastery."
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