"What we feel as spring, God sees as a fleeting little smile passing over the earth. Earth seems to be remembering something; in summer she tells every one about it, until she grows wiser in the great autumnal silence, through which she confides in those who are lonely. All springs you and I have lived through, put together, still do not suffice to fill a single one of God's seconds. A spring, for God to notice it, may not remain in trees and on the meadows; it must somethow manifest its strength in man, for then it will proceed, as it were, not within time, but rather in eternity and in God's presence."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Stories of God
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