You Must Change Your Life–Why Not?

“Never underestimate the power of dreams. The potential for greatness lives within each of us. -Wilma Rudolph

Maybe you know the astonishing Rilke quote, “You must change your life,” which comes from his poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” Rilke wrote the poem after reflecting upon a Greek sculpture of Apollo—headless but “with eyes like ripening fruit,” the torso “still suffused with brilliance.” It is as if there is great and vibrant power in the sculpture which is, after all, the replication of a god who is mythical. And that replication then partially destroyed. So the torso is several times removed from reality, and it is ruined. Still, Rilke sees the stone “from all the borders of itself/burst[ing] like a star.” Wow!