Night ShyamalanFilmmakerSadnessThere is a book that has stayed with me, that has been able to express those feelings I am incapable of bringing forth into words.The book is titled Letters to a Young Poet, and was written by Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke wrote a series of letters to an aspiring young poet advising him on art and life. In reading it, as countless have, I felt that he was writing to me.Of the nineteen quotes of his that I have written down in my notebooks, this one stirs me every time I read it:Perhaps we would bear our sadness with greater trust than we have in our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothingWhen I am hurt—and that is often—I now try to see it as something other than pain.When I am lost—and that is often—I remember to take a deep breath and look around to see the new place I am in.I have always been okay with being vulnerable to the attacks of the world.
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