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Rainer Maria Rilke

5 essays where Rainer Maria Rilke sits on the council. Rainer weighs in on grief, anticipatory loss, loneliness. Read what Rainer would tell you.

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Loss

How Do You Grieve Something That Never Had a Chance to Exist?

Kubler-Ross says grief has no rules about what counts. Rilke says live the loss without demanding it resolve. Kahneman says the mind mourns futures as vividly as pasts.

Elisabeth Kubler-RossRainer Maria RilkeDaniel KahnemanGriefAnticipatory Loss

Relationships

What Do You Do When You Feel More Alone Inside the Relationship Than Outside It?

Three thinkers on loneliness inside love. Woolf says solitude has been taken from you. Rilke says two people cannot fill each other. hooks says love is an action, not just a feeling.

Virginia WoolfRainer Maria Rilkebell hookslonelinessintimacy

Relationships

Why Do I Push People Away?

Three thinkers on why you push people away. Winnicott says the hiding hopes to be found. Schopenhauer says closeness has costs. Rilke says love the distance.

D.W. WinnicottArthur SchopenhauerRainer Maria RilkeAttachmentBoundariesSolitude

Loss

How Do You Grieve a Future You'll Never Have?

Three thinkers on grieving what never was. Rilke says live the loss. Camus says the future was never promised. Kubler-Ross says this is grief too.

Rainer Maria RilkeAlbert CamusElisabeth Kubler-Rossgrieffuture

Relationships

Can You Love Someone and Still Be Yourself?

Three thinkers on losing yourself in love. Erich Fromm says love should not cost you. Virginia Woolf says protect the room of your own. Rilke says let the distance stay.

Erich FrommVirginia WoolfRainer Maria RilkeLoveIndependenceSelf-Discovery

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Albert Camus Arthur Schopenhauer D.W. Winnicott Daniel Kahneman Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Virginia Woolf bell hooks Anticipatory Loss Attachment Boundaries Grief Independence Love Self-Discovery Solitude future grief intimacy loneliness

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