"I have long passed the stage of spelling out my delight, and in this, perhaps, consists the whole joy and task of my life, that I, novice though I am, belong to those who hear the Beautiful and can discern its voice even where it barely detaches itself from the surrounding noise; that I know God has not placed us among the things to choose, but to employ our acceptance so fundamentally and so mightily that we can, in the end, receive nothing but the Beautiful into our love, into our watchful attention, into our inextinguishable wonder." --Rilke

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