Peace Among Life’s Contradictions

“Whoever gathers his life’s many contradictions into one,
gratefully makes of them a single symbol,
expels all the noisy ones from his palace and
becomes in a new way festive.
Then You, God, are the guest whom he receives
in gentle evening hours. You are the second to
his solitude, the quiet center of his monologues,
and every time he circles around You,
You stretch his compass beyond time.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke