Rilke on Devils and Angels

If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels might take flight as well.

–Rilke, on withdrawing from psychotherapy after learning the goals to which it aspired, Letter 74, Briefe aus den Jahten 1907 bis 1914, cited in Rollo May, Love and Will, pg 122

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