Whatever the question, love is the answer...
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII by Rainer Maria Rilke
Read for Prayer Call on April 30th, see also "Ithaka"
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame.
Where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, leaves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.
What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?
What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered.
Pour yourself like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.
Every happiness is a child of separation
it did not think it could survive. And Daphne,
becomin a laurel,
dares you to become the wind.
Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame.
Where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, leaves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.
What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?
What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered.
Pour yourself like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.
Every happiness is a child of separation
it did not think it could survive. And Daphne,
becomin a laurel,
dares you to become the wind.
Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Comment
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Comment by emily nussdorfer on March 24, 2010 at 10:15pm -
Beautiful.
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Comment by Carolyn A. Pearson on May 12, 2009 at 1:36am -
Hi Carolyn, Can't sleep tonight, unusual for me. Hope you are well.
Are you surrendering?
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Comment by Carolyn G. Suradevi on May 12, 2009 at 12:07am -
I know what numb is
It's like being a mummy
Dieing when alive
I got out to live
Still I wonder if I will
Surrender Receive
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