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Only As A Child

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dear Ones,
Each time that I read Rainer Maria Rilke I am touched.  Sometimes there are tears of joy, sometimes tears of knowing.  Always I feel as if we are peering through the same window of Life and he has put what my heart feels onto paper.  When I find music that I like, I will [...]

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The Dark Embraces Everything

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

You, darkness, of whom I am born –
I love you more than the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illumines
and excludes all the rest.
But the darkness embarces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations–just as they are.
It lets me imagine
a great presence stirring beside me.
I believe in the night.

Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems [...]

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The Repository of Unlived Things

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

No one lives his life.
Disguised since childhood,
haphazardly assembled
from voices and fears and little pleasures,
we come of age as masks.
Our true face never speaks.
Somewhere there must be storehouses
where all these lives are laid away
like suits of armor or old carriages
or clothes hanging limply on the walls.
Maybe all paths lead there,
to the repository of unlived things.
excerpted from [...]

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In Honor of ALL the Writers

Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Nobody can advise and help you, nobody.
There is only one single means.
Go inside yourself.
Discover the motive that bids you write;
examine whether it sends its roots down
to the deepest places of your heart,
confess to yourself whether you would have to die
if writing were denied you.
This before all:
ask yourself in the quietest hour of the night:
must I [...]

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In this Uncontainable Light

Posted in Mindfulness, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality, tagged on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XXIX

Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell.  As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn [...]

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Enter the Breathing

Posted in Mindfulness, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Sonnets to Orpheus, Part One, IV
You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
that is more than your own.
Let it brush your cheeks
as it divides and rejoins beside you.
Blessed ones, whole ones,
you where the heart begins:
You are the bow that shoots the arrows
and you are the target.
Fear not the pain.  Let its weight fall back
into the [...]

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