Finally, Rilke concludes the passage by encouraging us to believe — to trust that in our aloneness and in our despair, a love is growing within us. But in any case, there’s absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it’s going to go on forever. to all of the stars this is what you feed Ancillary sciences. […] In the face of impermanence and death, it takes courage to love the things of this world and to believe that praising them is our noblest calling. This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. what batters you becomes your strength. I am not saying that we should love death, but rather that we should love life so generously, without picking and choosing, that we automatically include it (life’s other half) in our love. Macy goes on to discuss what Rilke’s poignant 1923 letter taught her, in the wake of her husband’s death, about our shared tussle with mortality. And if the world has ceased to hear you, Brain Pickings participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. Countless readers feel Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry speaks personally just to them, while at the same time opening glimpses into the infinite. What is it like, such intensity of pain? In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price. This toiling at tasks that remain to be done, Academy of American Poets Newsletter Center of all centers, of all seeds the seed, ... despair, lonely, river, lost, life, city. In a recent conversation with Krista Tippett on the always soul-stretching On Being, Macy discusses Rilke’s emboldening views on mortality and reads some of his poems on death and consciousness. And then our dying — releasing ourselves So long as we stand in opposition to Death we will disfigure it. Here are some of them. But the most emboldening wisdom of all — the most sorely needed consolation amid the daily darknesses we encounter both as individuals and, increasingly, as a society — comes from Macy herself. He allows us to see that the bestowal of such pure attention is in itself a triumph of the spirit. In the infinite is where to find your fruit’s skin. Literary Productivity, Visualized, 7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings, Illustrated, Anaïs Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by Debbie Millman, Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman, Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks, he believed were essential to the creative spirit. Can it take the bitterness out of death? If I could but sense whether dead children found Her words and the spirit from which they spring are nothing short of breathtaking: I’m everlastingly grateful that we were in love and stayed in love. Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously.
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