tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post5337973575211482258..comments2023-07-21T05:31:02.451+02:00Comments on A Year with Rilke: Simply in Your PresenceRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-5719788665743874112011-06-03T16:36:53.334+02:002011-06-03T16:36:53.334+02:00Moving poem and one I so identify with. The strugg...Moving poem and one I so identify with. The struggle to find self and be--just be. Be in a world that is full of pain. Learning to embrace it all, pain and pleasure, and be who you are. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing this!Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07384437429434126716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-13698306684544197262011-06-01T23:54:31.253+02:002011-06-01T23:54:31.253+02:00That's so beautiful!That's so beautiful!Noorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171691438488980697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-10540172783914884072011-05-29T23:31:20.060+02:002011-05-29T23:31:20.060+02:00rilke and rumi?
a similar sensibility?
Such a spl...rilke and rumi?<br />a similar sensibility?<br /><br />Such a splendid comment by the comments!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964291132366262298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-89531804137496998892011-05-29T14:33:34.974+02:002011-05-29T14:33:34.974+02:00i weep in these words. i weep for recognition.
i...i weep in these words. i weep for recognition.<br />i don't know how to add another word for it is absolutely perfect.<br /><br />is it masochism? i'm afraid i can't even see this question, really, an inability on my part, for i understand the alone and aloner, the small and smaller. i'm not even sure that it is humility exactly, although i think that it is tied to it. but rather there is a toxic energy between people despite all of the goodness that arises. it confuses truths. it is only in the barest of moments that truth is experienced. i laugh. if he means what i think he means there aren't even words to describe it. even words are too much.<br /><br />xo<br />erinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-39828998260511121482011-05-29T13:59:12.378+02:002011-05-29T13:59:12.378+02:00i'm thinking of the sufi adage "to be in ...i'm thinking of the sufi adage "to be in this world but not of it" as i wonder if the aesthetic and ascetic aren't symbiotic and mutually informing in the person engaged in creative spiritual work. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-45429609781233429822011-05-29T12:22:04.509+02:002011-05-29T12:22:04.509+02:00Note to Solitary Walker -- great observation, &quo...Note to Solitary Walker -- great observation, <em>"In so much of Rilke we find a tension between the ascetic and the aesthete - a creative polarity which greatly benefits his writing."</em>. He pulled those yearnings far apart and then merged them into his greatest work. Somewhere in one of his poems he wrote, and I paraphrase at best, "stretch your contradictions between the widest poles / because the god wants to know himself in you." Amen.- BrendanBrendanhttp://blueoran.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-21986923455438572172011-05-29T12:18:52.155+02:002011-05-29T12:18:52.155+02:00Makes you wonder if "The Thing Itself" E...Makes you wonder if "The Thing Itself" Ezra Pound fed Rilke's <em>Hours</em> to his flames. The difference between the two poets was like the difference Carl Jung made between James Joyce and his daughter Lucia: The one dove to where the other drowned. - BrendanBrendanhttp://blueoran.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-67829370639970938532011-05-29T08:41:19.280+02:002011-05-29T08:41:19.280+02:00"Being willing to fall in order to know how g..."Being willing to fall in order to know how great soaring will one day feel" - Brendan's comment from yesterday.<br /><br />To wish for a bigger fall, a smaller small, a lonelier loneliness.<br /><br />Is this humility or just plain masochism?<br /><br />In so much of Rilke we find a tension between the ascetic and the aesthete - a creative polarity which greatly benefits his writing.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.com