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Teach us to care and not to care,
Teach us to sit still

TS Eliot - Ash Wednesday

Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Where can we look for wisdom in these troubling times? The internet is awash with information, advice and distraction but very little of it will help us make sense of the chaos we find ourselves in.

The ten letters that Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote to a young man, Franz Xaver Kappus, were not intended for publication or posterity. They are just wonderful examples of engaged attention. Rilke is the great poet of solitude, of looking and listening, of the hard work involved in thinking about and trying to understand the world as it is. In this time of crisis perhaps the most creative thing we can do is to sit still and read these few pages written with touching generosity to a stranger.

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