Rainer Maria Rilke Live Your Life Quotations

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy?