tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post7100494506683211977..comments2023-07-21T05:31:02.451+02:00Comments on A Year with Rilke: What Kind of Courage Is Required of Us?Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-43498441504675520882011-06-02T01:12:29.490+02:002011-06-02T01:12:29.490+02:00Looking at that solitude from its brightest side I...Looking at that solitude from its brightest side I think it can be a great opportunity to reflect on the meaning of life. Sometimes it may happen being driven to that situation due to some unpredictable circunstances. At 30 y.o., Zarathustra (the famous Nietzsche character) chose to leave his mother land and took refuge in a mountain where he stood for 10 years having just the sun, an eagle and a snake as his companions. Being stripped of all his assets, for such a long time, gave him the enormous advantage of being able to enphasize what's important in life: hapiness, compassion, knowledge and the redemptive spirits found among poets.<br />A brighter loneliness of self discovery :)Paralelo Longehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917916293705998600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-34683409744939149892011-05-31T22:41:18.140+02:002011-05-31T22:41:18.140+02:00It's a very small thing, but I feel as if I...It's a very small thing, but I feel as if I've been "taken out of my room" with our loss of power and water for a few days because of storm damage. Just this, and I feel unsettled, anxious and have butterflies in my stomach. I had no problem accepting it or having courage, but I was not feeling centered or at peace with this new temporary routine. It takes "awareness still whole" which I have not applied. It's here inside, and after reading here, I know I can pull it back.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-57937594171993894472011-05-31T21:43:49.036+02:002011-05-31T21:43:49.036+02:00Exposed on the mountains of the heart. See, how sm...Exposed on the mountains of the heart. See, how small there,<br />see: the last hamlet of words, and higher,<br />and yet so small, a last<br />homestead of feeling. Do you recognize it?<br />Exposed on the mountains of the heart. Rocky earth<br />under the hands. But something will<br />flower here; out of the mute abyss<br />flowers an unknowing herb in song.<br />But the knowing? Ah, that you who began to understand<br />and are silent now, exposed on the mountains of the heart.<br />Yet many an awareness still whole wanders there,<br />many a self-confident mountain animal<br />passes through and remains. And that great protected bird<br />circles about the peaks of pure denial. But<br />unprotected, here on the mountains of the heart. <br /><br />(September 1914)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-39711262519387661242011-05-31T16:15:27.694+02:002011-05-31T16:15:27.694+02:00Damn hard to do.Damn hard to do.California Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12582691517303132274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-73328983404160769812011-05-31T14:55:53.056+02:002011-05-31T14:55:53.056+02:00We never know what kind of courage will be require...We never know what kind of courage will be required, or how much courage we can muster until we require it, do we?Ramblings by Carol Nuckolshttp://www.pegasusediting.com/CarolsBlog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-82633936736962265682011-05-31T14:18:46.236+02:002011-05-31T14:18:46.236+02:00It may be courage - but also a natural instinct fo...It may be courage - but also a natural instinct for self-preservation? Acceptance of and adaptation to the immensity in all its terror is what we must do - to avoid going under.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.com