Posts Tagged "Rilke"

God speaks to each of us…

God speaks to each of us…

Reading at Ambrosia Dome Practice  10/24/2011 God speaks to each of us as he makes us, Then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: “You , sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing Embody me Flare up like a flame and make shadows I can move in Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror Just keep going. No feeling is...

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Loesch mir die Augen aus

Loesch mir die Augen aus

Reading at Anara practice 01/10/2010 Life Stages in Beauty by Linaji Extinguish both my eyes: I see you still; Slam shut my ears: I can still hear you talking; Without my mouth I can implore your will And without my feet: towards you I keep on walking. Break off my arms: I shall hold you tight; My heart will yet embrace you all the same. Suppress my heart: my brain knows no deterrent; And if at...

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Live the questions….

Live the questions….

…have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future,...

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