"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters To A Young Poet)
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beautiful.
sublime
where's the best tandoori chicken in town?
the sad solitude.
she went away too quickly.
there is no return.
- haiku 859 by Dagmara Anna AuraDagimar
-but still where's the best tandoori in town
Oh! my gawd.That is the most beautiful stuff i've read.And as though the words were tailor made for me today! wow!
keep it going....
Metaphysical,and great.
Thank you, Autar-ji.
Thank you, Mordu, Peachy, Jagdish.
Beautiful haiku, that, Anil. Thank you for sharing it.
As for the best tandoori chicken, sadly Shimla doesn't have a single place worth its salt for that.... Not one. The chicken's either too stringy, or too tough. Or just plain tasteless.
Thank you, Jagdish.
It's strange how things work sometimes...I have finished just a month ago the shooting of a film in Lucknow, where I've used Rilke's poetry "Loneliness". Now we are working on a project to do in Shimla, regarding the water, and I've found your blog.
I would like to ask you so many questions about Shimla! Seems such an interesting place, full of energy and inspiring.
Regards!
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