In this short and inspiring poem, Rilke asks what beckons us towards ideal states and what value does the search provide?
Category: Poetry
Danusha Laméris – Stone
Danusha Lameris' poem Stone invokes the turning towards a way of being, a focused, cherishing attending.
Ashley Capps – Kindly
Love of life is the animating force behind all living things; each moment we decide to give or withhold love is an emergency for someone.
David Whyte – The Opening of Eyes
Whyte's poem of clear seeing: the experience of holiness is the very ground that is under our feet.
Teddy Macker – This World
We will find life intoxicating; we’ll yearn to commune with its beauty, and we’ll also get utterly wrung out by it all and lose our way.
Annie Lighthart – The Second Music
The richness sparked by even a moment of touching into intimacy with life may become what we seek to find again, and again.
Tess Gallagher – Choices
When we have the capacity to hold back and turn away from the harm we might do.
Laura Fargas – Kuan Yin
This ode to the Bodhisattva of Compassion casts her as a person in the world, who could be one or many.
Naomi Shihab Nye – The Art of Disappearing
A tribute to the serene wisdom of choosing when to step into the light and when to fade into the shadows.
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