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Hints for Contemplation: July 2008
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God speaks to each of us only in making us
And then walks silently with us out of the night.
But the words before our beginning,
cloudy words, are these:
"Sent out by your senses,
Go to the edge of your longing,
Give me something to wear.
Flare up like a fire behind all things;
So that their shadows expand
to always cover me fully.
Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror.
Just keep going: No feeling is the farthest out.
Do not let yourself be parted from me.
Near is the land
which they call life.
You will know it
by its earnestness.
Give me your hand."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Translation by Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
These past Hints for Contemplation are available in PDF format:
Hints for Contemplation July
Hints for Contemplation June
Hints for Contemplation May
Hints for Contemplation April
Hints for Contemplation March
Hints for Contemplation February
Hints for Contemplation January |
