Beyond the Borders of our Intuition

Just thinking about these words from Rilke and this painting today.

Consider whether great changes have not happened deep inside your being in times when you were sad…If only we could see a little farther than our knowledge reaches and a little beyond the borders of our intuition, we might perhaps bear our sorrows more trustingly than we do our joys.  For they are the moments when something new enters us, something unknown.  Our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, they take a step back, a stillness arises, and the new thing, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

Intuition’s Border, 18 x 18 inches, oil on canvas, Sharon Kingston

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