The Evergreen Journal #24 ~ “We are Building God”
Today, I am sharing some wisdom from one of my favorite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke. If you have never read any of his writings, I think you will find something of value in them.
I often think of Rilke as similar to the brilliance of Augustine – and Mozart.
There are many parallels when you begin to study each of these three men.
Each of them were blessed with a brilliance in the Genius level of human thought.
Rainer Maria Rilke –
Here is a quote from Rilke:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Check out the books about and by Rilke on Amazon.
See a collection of books by Rilke at Amazon
To learn MORE about Rilke, this is a university lecture that I LOVE. This lecture is by Dr. Gregory Sadler. I kept thinking,
How MUCH I would love to have been in his philosophy lectures when I was a student at the universities doing my graduate work. Philosophy gives us a core to understanding what we encounter in our reading.
Listen to lecture on Rilke’s writing here.