You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own.

The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from  Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, In Praise of  Mortality–Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.