the simplicity

.

If you hold to Nature, to the simplicity that is in her, 

to the small detail that scarcely one man sees, 

which can so unexpectedly grow into something great and boundless; 

if you have this love for insignificant things and seek, simply as one who serves, 

to win the confidence of what seems to be poor: 

then everything will become easier for you, 

more coherent and somehow more conciliatory,

 not perhaps in the understanding, which lags wondering behind, 

but in your innermost consciousness, 

wakefulness and knowing.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke 

from Letters to a Young Poet