Quotes: Sue Monk Kidd

"The soul often speaks through longing. It manifests like a restlessness. And when the soul longs, it's trying to tell you something. And I think the soul speaks through what pulls us. That allure. The longing. The restlessness."

–– Sue Monk Kidd (b. 1948), American writer 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 61.

Quotes: Rainer Maria Rilke

"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, 

then walks with us silently out of the night. 

These are the words we dimly hear: 

You, sent out, beyond your recall,

go to the limits of your longing. 

Embody me. 

Flare up like flame 

and make big shadows that I can move in. 

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. 

Just keep going. No feeling is final. 

Don't let yourself lose me. 

Nearby is the country they call life. 

You will know it by its seriousness. 

Give me your hand."

Book of Hours I 59

–– Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist 

via: Sketchbook A, 2015, p. 23