tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post7176474166277560353..comments2023-07-21T05:31:02.451+02:00Comments on A Year with Rilke: God SpeaksRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-45253583055988122492011-01-22T06:08:03.845+01:002011-01-22T06:08:03.845+01:00God waits for us. Whether Buddhist, Catholic, Pr...God waits for us. Whether Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, Jew - whatever. If we don't take our spirituality further than creator, origin, source - and don't internalize it by reaching out, letting it ripen in us and continue to grow with it - then we have not embraced God at all. We are just running around masquerading as a person of faith. This Rilke post was beautiful ... "Hasn't my longing ripened in you..." Just lovely.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-49701888205696419712011-01-22T06:00:47.255+01:002011-01-22T06:00:47.255+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-64284592021307530772011-01-21T07:29:37.521+01:002011-01-21T07:29:37.521+01:00It's almost not funny, but sometimes and espec...It's almost not funny, but sometimes and especially lately, I do feel it is about to break.<br /><br />Some days so strong there is nothing I can do but laugh, but there is nothing funny about it.whohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17685473418191606910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-82167155058273767142011-01-21T04:34:19.481+01:002011-01-21T04:34:19.481+01:00touch the divine...inside
this passage is so gorg...touch the divine...inside<br /><br />this passage is so gorgeousCharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03851293154388793520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-20862463116809194752011-01-20T21:33:10.374+01:002011-01-20T21:33:10.374+01:00Each image of this poem is so powerfully stirring ...Each image of this poem is so powerfully stirring and evocative, to cite them would be to type out the entire poem again. I think we begin here to get Rilke's sense of sense of God as a culmination, a fulfilment, something we are moving toward, our destination, more than in the traditional Christian sense of creator, origin, the source. As such God is always present but ever just out out of reach, still ripening, continually gathering strength in the beauty we behold, ready to break into being, the dream in our dreaming ... absolutely tantalizing.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-54805145437911918082011-01-20T19:46:00.659+01:002011-01-20T19:46:00.659+01:00I echo every comment posted before. This is profou...I echo every comment posted before. This is profoundly moving verse and sculpture.<br /><br />Having come out of a belief structure where I believed that God is "Other," what Rilke does here to show that something divine <i>within</i> us awakens this god-mystery with a <i>touch</i>, resonates as true to my own understanding now. God within, <i>and</i> without. One.<br /><br />Yes, we can put Rumi on the sidebar, I agree that often since the start of this blog the two "R"s have been talking to each other.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-36615144476867760392011-01-20T18:37:50.880+01:002011-01-20T18:37:50.880+01:00Exquisite pairing of words and image.Exquisite pairing of words and image.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-17804001164389726692011-01-20T14:43:23.813+01:002011-01-20T14:43:23.813+01:00I have to agree with Robert about this poem. It i...I have to agree with Robert about this poem. It is "the mystical and the erotic all rolled into one." I also love the hint of Buddhism that I have sensed before in Rilke: "When you want to awaken, I am waiting."Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-35811131282412905662011-01-20T13:52:25.464+01:002011-01-20T13:52:25.464+01:00Such a calm voice. I laugh at man, all of our fit...Such a calm voice. I laugh at man, all of our fitful questions, lifetimes of roiling and pulling hair, and god says, eternal and wise, only:<i> i am.</i><br /><br />And even for me, someone who has a faith that is not in anything concrete, but rather in just this kind of stirring that god points to, <i>My murmurings surround you like shadowy wings.</i><br /> And this is enough. It speaks to god like some kind of energy, an idea i can receive.<br /><br />Gorgeous. <br /><br />xo<br />erinWoman in a Windowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747858840088922077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-51790603745990723452011-01-20T13:18:14.827+01:002011-01-20T13:18:14.827+01:00Yes, Steven, I have the same reaction. As a follow...Yes, <b>Steven</b>, I have the same reaction. As a follower of Ruth's Rumi Days blog, I, too, get a bubbly kick out of the synchronicities found between the Rilke and Rumi passages, the shudder and tingle of discovering connecting threads somehow laid across vast expanses of time and space. I think Ruth must do it with mirrors. Of course us readers of her main blog, synch-ro-ni-zing, come to expect such magic from her.<br /><br />Come to think of it, maybe we should put a sidebar link to the Rumi Days blog here. How about it, Ruth? I know you're eavesdropping here ...Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-7885304765307978612011-01-20T12:51:35.555+01:002011-01-20T12:51:35.555+01:00it's so intriguing visiting here and then visi...it's so intriguing visiting here and then visiting the rumi page. worlds apart describing the same world. the dance today between the spiritual and the earthly is often mirrored in rumi's writing. hmmm. stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-13169176956079204102011-01-20T07:55:14.008+01:002011-01-20T07:55:14.008+01:00"with the silence of stars I enfold
your citi..."with the silence of stars I enfold<br />your cities made by time" - beautiful.*https://www.blogger.com/profile/06484208765656281917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732202925039933709.post-38851474949029663362011-01-20T06:42:22.325+01:002011-01-20T06:42:22.325+01:00Yet another wonderful pairing. The mystical and th...Yet another wonderful pairing. The mystical and the erotic all rolled into one! Reminds me of those female Christian saints like Teresa of Avila. This is giving me such fresh insights into Rilke.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.com