Rainer Maria Rilke

Repost of Episode 416

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Waiting in the Struggle, and today’s reading comes from “The Third Letter.”

All things consist of carrying to term and then giving birth.  To allow the completion of every impression, every germ of a feeling deep within, in darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct unattainable by logic, to await humbly and patiently the hour of the descent of a new clarity: that alone is to live one’s art, in the realm of understanding as in that of creativity.

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Repost of Episode 415

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Solitude, and today’s reading comes from “The Tenth Letter.”

I can only wish that you trustingly and patiently allow that grand solitude to work in you.  It is no longer possible to be erased from your life.  It shall be immanent in all that you experience and all that you do.  It will act as an anonymous influence….  It is gently decisive at each crossroad of our life.

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Repost of Episode 414

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Solitude, and today’s reading comes from “The Fifth Letter.”

One gradually learns to recognize the very few things in which eternity dwells, which one can love, and solitude, of which one can softly partake.

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Repost of Episode 413

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Solitude, and today’s reading comes from “The Fourth Letter.”

[Y]our pact with aloneness will be your support and solace even in the midst of unfamiliar situations.  It is through that aloneness that you will find all your paths.

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Repost of Episode 412

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Solitude, and today’s reading comes from “The Second Letter.”

We are unutterably alone, essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important to us.  In order for a person to advise, even to help another, a great deal must happen.

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Repost of Episode 411

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Solitude, and today’s reading comes from “The First Letter.”

Your aloneness will expand and will become your home, greeting you like the quiet dawn.  Outer tumult will pass it by from afar.

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Repost of Episode 419

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Wisdom from Rilke using selections from Letters to a Young Poet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke.  This week’s theme is Waiting in the Struggle, and today’s reading comes again from The Eighth Letter.

[Our griefs] are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unfamiliar.  Our feelings become mute in timid shyness.  Everything within us steps back; a silence ensues, and the something new, known to no one, stands in the center and is silent.

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