"We, however, are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about us, and
there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us. We are set down in life
as in the element to which we best correspond, and over and above this we
have, through thousands of years of accommodation, become so much like this
life that when we hold still we are, through a happy mimicry, scarcely to be
distinguished from all that surrounds us. We have no reason to mistrust our
world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if
it has abysses, those abysses belong to us; if dangers are at hand, we must
try to love them. And if only we arrange our life according to that principle
which counsels us to hold to the difficult, then that which now seems to us
the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How can
we forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the
myths and dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all
the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us, once,
beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is, in it's deepest being,
something helpless which wants help from us."

-Rainer Maria Rilke; Briefe an einen jungen Dichter

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• www.holotropic.com Official Site of Holotropic Breathwork
• Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI)
• www.primals.org International Primal Association
• www.johnemackinstitute.org
• The Healing Breath Holotropic Breathwork online journal
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