Go to the Limits of Your Longing

Apr 19th 2020 — Uncategorized — 8:04 am

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 big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

-Rainer Maria Rilke
Book of Hours, I 59

2 Comments »

  1. Helpful!

    Comment by Eliza — May 18, 2020 @ 7:45 pm
  2. that is generous Mom…the part

    Let everything happen to you:
    beauty and terror.
    Just keep going.
    No feeling is final.

    is used in the end of Jojo Rabbit. Seems applicable to the current times. The rest of it is pretty good too.

    Comment by Michael Sulock — May 21, 2020 @ 12:01 pm

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