Poetry : Fruitful Darkness with Rilke

Jan 3

*“But when I lean over the chasm of myself*
*it seems*
*my God is dark*
*and like a web: a hundred roots*
*silently drinking.*
*This is the ferment I grow out of.*
*More I don’t know, because my branches*
*rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind”*
*-Rainer Maria Rilke*

This Lifeworlds episode is a devotional journey into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, the lyrical German poet of thresholds and embracing transformations.

Through readings of his most luminous poems and writings, we explore how Rilke guides us deliciously in reconciling suffering and turmoil with tremendous beauty. It’s an offering for anyone standing in the in-between, for those moving through sublimation, and longing for those secret, dazzling encounters with primal life forces.

Rilke’s words are an invitation in. To move towards. His poems are prayers…. “to go out into our hearts as onto a vast plain, so that life can feel us as it reaches for us.”