Catch only what you’ve thrown yourself, all is mere skill and little gain;

Catch only what you’ve thrown yourself, all is
mere skill and little gain;
but when you’re suddenly the catcher of a ball
thrown by an eternal partner
with accurate and measured swing
towards you, to your center, in an arch
from the great bridgebuilding of God:
why catching then becomes a power—
not yours, a world’s.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Excerpt From: Gadamer, Hans-Georg. “Truth and Method.”