Thoughts…

‘The Soul works through a kind of “psychic DNA,” which manifests on many planes…our bodies, our personalities, our dreams…using all of it to work out the karma of the Soul.’

-Ram Dass

‘God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please…you can never have both.’

And…

‘The great majority of men are not original, for they are not primary, have not assumed their own vows, but are secondaries…grow up and grow old in seeming and following; and when they die they occupy themselves to the last with what others will think, and whether Mr. A and Mr. B will go their funeral.’

-Emerson

‘There is no more wretched prison than the fear of hurting someone who loves you.’

-Rilke

Paula Modersohn-Becker(1876–1907), an early expressionist painter, became acquainted with Rilke in Worpswede and Paris, and painted his portrait in 1906.